Near the end of her 2006 memoir, Leaving Church, Barbara Brown Taylor tells the story of being invited to speak at a gathering. “Tell us

There are very few academic quotes that I think about regularly—sorry, professors. However, there’s one that almost haunts me. It comes from Hans Urs von

Just over ten years ago I was ordained as a Minister of the Word in the Christian Reformed Church. In so many ways, including denominationally,

It’s been an eventful few months in the Christian Reformed Church. Big and consequential things are happening, but that’s not why I’m writing. Another unfolding

My brother and I grew up in a small house with four adults–two parents, two grandparents, all of whom had things to say. All of

The two pencil sharpeners were identical, both blue with white plastic covers. They fit the hand of a second grader perfectly.  Unfortunately, these little sharpeners

Christian Reformed people have been asking me whether they can be “Kuyperian” in the Reformed Church in America (RCA). This is obviously a pressing question

On a crisp morning Blue, our Shetland sheepdog, began his daily pacing, dog language for, “Put on my leash and take me for a walk.”

“You need to work on your identity crisis at a different institution.” With those words Dean Boender sent me packing.  It was 1979, I was