The gentle, old saint, with less than 48 hours to live, whispered to me, “I just wonder if I have done enough?” The question made

by Chuck DeGroat My vocation is to be love.                     St. Thérèse of Lisieux I grew up in a very conservative Reformed tradition that tended in

by Michael Bos As I write this, I’m mindful of research about online reading habits. I know that for every additional one hundred words I

This spring, unlike almost every spring for the past twenty-one years, I missed the commencement exercises at Calvin College. However, I did attend two other

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by Bill White We were sitting at an outside table at Starbucks on Spring Street on the third Sunday of Lent. As a family we’d

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by Mike Kugler “Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects… don’t have politics. They’re very… brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We