Category: Blog

Blog

Small Shrines

So, March was 749 days long. I’m not sure if I’m ready for the month billed by T.S. Eliot as “the cruelest.” The picture painted

Read More »
Blog

Be Still

Be still, and know that I am God.   Psalm 46:10 As an ADHD sufferer, I confess that this verse has always given me the heebie

Read More »
Blog

The God Who Tents Among Us

John 1:1-18 Every May I teach a Hope College course called Ecological Theology and Ethics. It runs for three weeks, with the middle two weeks

Read More »
Blog

Staying Sane While Staying Home

I initially had grand plans of reading and writing about two excellent new books that are out this month on Christian nationalism, but then a

Read More »
Blog

Invisible and Vulnerable

I write from a position of privilege. I’m at my desk, typing on a computer hooked up to the internet, the lifeline for many who

Read More »
Blog

Telling the Covid-19 Virus Story

As I write this, my two teenagers are “zooming” their classmates and friends and working away at the assignments their teachers have given them during

Read More »
Blog

America the Exceptional

Before my last semester of full-time college teaching was derailed by a virus, I had been teaching – for about the fortieth time – my

Read More »
Blog

Be Not Afraid

Some years back, before we even had The Twelve yet I think, I wrote an article in Perspectives on a strangely powerful benediction that Neal

Read More »