Yesterday was one of those odd collisions of events that can nearly be disorienting.  Starting Sunday afternoon and into Monday my social media feeds were

Historian and international relations theorist E.H. Carr famously defined history this way: “My first answer, therefore, to the question, What is History?, is that it

You’ve been exceeding gracious in reading (tolerating?) my reflections on what it means to do church, and be church, in an age when the usual

Over the years, during many a frigid January in Michigan, while dragging out of bed in the winter darkness to teach a three-hour-a-day interim course

Once a month I get to tell a Bible story to the little ones in our church while the adults are in the worship service.

I had a professor in seminary who was the first to reveal to me that sanitized picture of Martin Luther King that we have created

When my dear friend and frequent collaborator Jane Zwart recommends something, I listen. Particularly when it comes to poetry–because, as an accomplished poet herself, she

I’d never heard the phrase before — “Crabs in a bucket.” Robert Leonard, affectionately known around here as “Dr. Bob,” used it to describe these

It’s not every Sunday that a journalist from the New York Times visits your church. At least not the church I serve, tucked away in