“Why don’t they just move?” After the second hurricane in a few weeks, it’s hard not to ask this question about people who live in

This morning I propose that the increasing fatalism within the Christian community, the resignation that the world is as it is, is a product of

Last Friday I had the honor of speaking at “Sharply into the Wind,” the program marking Cornelis van der Kooi’s emeritation at the Free University

What if we had a different kind of conversation? That’s what I’ve been wondering. I watched a good bit of the hearings a couple of

My friend Frederick Dale Bruner loves teaching the big narratives in John’s Gospel.   When he and I used to do a preaching seminar together, a

As an alumnus of Michigan State University, I am deeply upset by the appalling abuse of Larry Nassar. When people say something to me about

Isaiah 58 Fall is such a conflicted season for me. Growing up in Iowa and living in agricultural communities in Michigan and New York, fall

A few weeks ago my sister texted me and told me to turn on NPR immediately. Terry Gross was interviewing Linda Kay Klein about her

Just a week or so ago, the LDS church told its millions that they should cease and desist from calling each other “Mormons.” Maybe, as