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?

By Luke Hawley I grew up in a church with virtually no liturgical calendar. I mean, we celebrated Christmas and Easter and I remember once

Fifty years after it went out of style, he still wore his hair–great hair, by the way–in a duck tail. Had he let it grow