I began my day yesterday talking about pastoral care in the midst of grief and loss with twenty-nine seminary students. I ended my day reading

As an “immigrant” to the Reformed tradition, I have often found that some of the “natives” in the tradition resonate with Chaim Potok’s The Chosen–a

I was staying in a hotel on one of those ubiquitous suburban strips—big box stores, gas stations, car lots, the usual suspects of restaurants.   Figuring

Invitation Mary Oliver Oh do you have timeto lingerfor just a little whileout of your busy and very important dayfor the goldfinchesthat have gatheredin a

A girl can’t spend every minute thinking deep thoughts and reading classic literature, so on occasion I flop on the couch and watch myself a

Ten years ago maybe, my in-laws, then in their eighties, told us that they had simply mentioned to the pastor, as if in passing, that occasionally they’d

They came from places called Sekitsch and Feketitsch, Werbass and Torscha—villages, towns, and cities in the Batschka and Banat. If you ask them in what

I’ve got a confession: I love Halloween Halloween invites us to imagine who we want to be and dress up as whatever we envision. This

If you have been paying even moderate attention to the media of late, then you know the huge amount of attention that has been paid