by Kate Kooyman My job is to talk to churches about social justice. So I’m no stranger to the argument that is so often levied

by Norman Kolenbrander As we drove out of the city of Krakow, Poland, strips of ripening barley, oats, and rye unfurled outside the windows of

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By Brian Keepers This past Christmas my sister-in-law, an ordained minister in the RCA and a Ph.D. student at Wheaton, gave me a compelling little

by Katy Sundararajan I am the one who prepares for the trips that we take in our household. My husband might dream up the trip,

  Sumac and scrubby grass, dense-leaved oaks and maples, jumbles of every possible green. Blue spruce, Douglas fir, white pines, red pines, the astonishing symmetry

The word lobotomy strikes terror in the heart of most of us today, despite the fact that the procedure was once the darling of mental health professionals–and

For several summers I’ve taught a course on global literature organized around the topic of “Apocalypse.” But the course material isn’t what you might expect–no

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up