What is it about J.D. Vance that gets under my skin? I know it’s got nothing to do with his selection this week as the

I am not very handy. I try to fix things around the house, but I have just enough knowledge to be dangerous. Often, when I

There is something that happens when I step outside, with no purse or bag. I almost feel naked, like my fevered August teacher dreams where

My wife Jodi has a picture of the two of us dancing at a wedding as the screensaver on her phone. She loves that picture.

We live in an 1920s brick home within an upper middle class neighborhood of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our house offers a lot of character and

The board of Elders at my brother’s church (which is not in the Reformed tradition) had a woman come to their meeting to profess her

High up a winding alpine road, at almost the very top of a narrow canyon, stood the 1920s log cabin my parents purchased in the

I remember when it was considered a good idea for churches to look and feel like shopping malls, a place where 1990s people felt comfortable