I had hoped for a beautiful and lengthy post reflecting on the gravitas of Christmas, but alas, I don’t have that. I, like many pastors,

In Marilynne Robinson’s luminous epistolary novel Gilead we read the musings of the Rev. John Ames.   Ames is coming to the end of his days

The Christmas holiday makes some people nuts. Seriously nuts. There’s a reason why George Costanza’s father, Frank, decided to reject Christmas in favor of a

By Tom Boogaart A few years ago, an historic Reformed Church was celebrating its sesquicentennial and inviting various people to come and talk about the

by Chuck DeGroat Pardon the length of this piece, but we really need to talk. It’s become inevitable that I’ll get a call or email

If I heard it once, I heard the story a dozen times. It was all about the gendered shape of conversation. Went like this. One

by Kate Kooyman We’re doing a little craft after dinner during Advent — I read parts of the story of Jesus’s birth, and then my

One Christmas, I was probably about ten years old, I made a last-minute switcheroo in what I wanted for Christmas. Instead of the tabletop football