photo credit: Freddy Rosas Jeff Munroe is away today. His daughter Amanda, Social Justice Curriculum and Pedagogy Coordinator at Georgetown University’s Center for Social Justice
Jim Bratt is away today. We thank Paul Janssen for being our guest blogger. The church is hardly crying out for another take on “spiritual
Just the other day I walked to work–about seven blocks in all–for the first time since early July. It’s amazing how we take the simple
I’ve spent the past few days at Duke University Divinity School, discussing the topic of leadership with a diverse group of women and men serving
This week ushers in my favorite season: fall. And here in Grand Rapids that also means ArtPrize–which opens today. Since its beginning in 2009, ArtPrize
“I’m going to baptize my grandkids this summer!” These were the words of an Elder in my congregation, a grandmother, as she headed out for
I really appreciated psychologist Laurence Steinberg’s article last week, “The Case for Delayed Adulthood.” He acknowledges that the societal ways we talk about the path to adulthood
“There’s a lot of down time between the mighty deeds of God.” I heard myself saying this to my friend Sharon over pancakes yesterday. We
Dowa Yalanne is the kind of place that really deserves the word monumental. There it stands like a momentary eruption stopped in time, a bundle
