I spent the morning at Dachau Concentration Camp memorial site, just outside Munich. I wandered the grounds and exhibitions: the roll call area, barracks, infirmary,

School has been starting for K-12 students round here this week, and even though my university’s classes begin after Labor Day, there’s already been the

“They look like Dr. Seuss flowers!” So declared my 10-year-old upon seeing the rows and rows of dahlias at the Meijer Gardens Dahlia Show in

In January. Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell posted a blog in this space called Joe Biden’s Age, arguing that Biden’s age helped make him trustworthy. The months since

We were enemies, we just didn’t know it yet. Sitting across the small table for two was my friend Andrei. Both of us had been

In the last two weeks, I’ve managed to see two new musicals that each offer their own critique of the American dream — Gatsby: An

A couple things recently have put me in mind of the late Peter Borgdorff. He was the first Executive Director of the Christian Reformed Church

I started writing for the Reformed Journal blog in Autumn of 2019. Some five years later, I’ve just crested the 100-blog peak. When I look

Sabbath is not simply the pause that refreshes. It is the pause that transforms.Walter Brueggemann Keep The Sabbath, Or God Will Keep It For You