Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, “The one I will kiss is the man; arrest him.” At once he came up to

Debra Rienstra is away today. Debra has asked Katerina Parsons to allow us to post this essay, which appeared on March 1 on our sister

It was a very old church, although not as ancient as many throughout the Netherlands. And it was right on the street, middle of town,

Omaha Beach, January 2017 This landscape reminds me of home. The winter sun, the relatively warm weather, the golden grasses catching the light, the high

Last week I wondered why my clergy friends were talking about the Women at the Well (John 4) a week before I was preaching it.

Someone once observed that there is no sentence in the English language that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins,

Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on

by Rebecca Koerselman Recently, I read the book Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. It is a work of fiction that inhabits the historical context of

by Trygve Johnson One of the most moving scenes in scripture is Jesus praying in Gethsemane. Otto Dix captures this scene in this dramatic sketch