Nineteen years ago we started washing feet at our Maundy Thursday worship service. This isn’t so much a “success story,” more of a “how my

by Katy Sundararajan Last Friday, from my office window, I could see wind whipping the tablecloths laid out for the Spring Fling picnic in the

By Luke Hawley My 7-year-old son, Judah, asked me last night about the meaning of the word complicated. He had just asked his older sister

In some of my earliest memories, three-year-old me enters a cavernous room filled with light and lined with books: the Bridge Street branch of the

My son turned 14 last week. For his birthday we bought him tickets to see his favorite artist in concert, so Monday night we drove

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single young woman in possession of an imagination must imagine herself the heroine in an Austen novel.

By Heidi S. De Jonge Apparently, Monday, the 23rd of April, was World Book Day. I love books, but I’m beginning to wonder if I

At the recent Festival of Faith & Writing here at Calvin College and Seminary, I had the great privilege of interviewing pastor and author Fleming

When is the last time you made serious eye contact with someone? Not just a glance, but sustained eye contact. Does it make you uncomfortable?