Last month I was part of group representing the Reformed Church in America at an ecumenical discussion.  Along with the three other “Formula of Agreement”

You’ve probably heard the news from Southern California.  There’s been some recent interesting related activity on my facebook feed.  Thought you’d enjoy. Thanks to Ron Rienstra for

Professor Helen Vendler says that Emily Dickinson changed the first word of the fourth line the poem “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers” from “sleep” to

“Pastor, can I ask you a question?” Joe asked me less than five minutes before the worship service is about to begin.   “Umm, sure…”

As Christians—and most certainly as Trinitarian Christians who believe that God is a vibrant community of love and mutuality among three distinct Persons—we know that

I was supposed to answer the question “Why do I write?” on a page you can find by clicking on “The 12” button atop this

We can say for sure that the United States was not founded on a Christian basis. How do we know? From the testimony of prominent