The Reformed Standards insist on boundaries, divisions, and internal uniformity while we yearn for bridges, unity, and internal diversity.

I crawled under the plastic branches to discover I had rotated the tree so enthusiastically that I’d pulled the light cord taut enough to rip

I often rode Navy frigates along the Pacific coast of Central America that fell under Coast Guard authority for counter-drug operations.

It was around 1980 that Trisha Zinger and I starred in what had to have been the best children’s Christmas program of all time. While

We tell the story sentimentally. And, sentimentally, we call you Prince of Peace. Sentimentally—even though you were born to a world that crucified you and

For seventeen centuries St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, Saint in Bari, has inspired people by his faith and generosity. Nicholas grew up during the late

I went inside and told the officer behind the window that I was lost. That was the first lie.

It’s in the darkness that Christ’s ambassadors should shine the brightest. And yet, similar to our church’s Christ candle when we forget to fill it