Two weeks ago I took my kids to see Rise of the Guardians – a story about Jack Frost, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the

I was going to write in sorrow or outrage or scolding critique about the shootings at Newtown, Connecticut a week ago today. But all of

In one week, one day, one moment, so much can change; so much can be lost. And we are left torn apart and disoriented. Waves

James Vanden Bosch, professor of English at Calvin College is substituting today for Jennifer Holberg.  Thanks, Jim! “We had fed the heart on fantasies, The

“Theologians are poets who cannot write poetry.” I believe it was Stanley Hauerwas I once heard say this. It feeds my deep insecurities. I certainly

 I’m struggling to find words today. I’m tempted to just re-post my piece “Herod’s Long Shadow” from a year ago. And I’m tempted to take back

I would like to be writing a review of the new movie The Hobbit, but I haven’t seen it yet. (My daughter went to a

 I’m not unaccustomed to traveling, but yesterday, like a thousand times before, I came up on a huge strip of truck tire, something peeled from

Just to be clear, beer and gasoline is not what this post is about, although they do make an appearance in what I’d like to