The Shape of Water won the Oscar for best film last February. It tells the story of a mute woman who falls in love with

The room is quiet when I enter. A circle of chairs around a plain table, flowers and a few books in the center. Perhaps thirty

I read Kate Bowler’s memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved, in two sittings last week. I want to read it

This past Saturday I was pretty busy, participating in the Commencement for Calvin Theological Seminary late-morning and then attending the Calvin College Commencement in the

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By Bill White Today, Pentecost Sunday, we often say we are celebrating the birth of the church. But as we celebrate, perhaps we can also

By James Bratt When I was a kid, I never got the big deal about Pentecost. For one, it didn’t come along with any special

There’s something vintage Old Testament about the story, something decidedly like myth. But it happened; and just a bit north of Topeka, atop a hill

Last week we marked Ascension Day, forty days since the resurrection of Jesus, and the day that his body was taken up into heaven. The