My impulse to get up and leave surprised me. I’ve heard our communion liturgy a million times, but why thoughts to just walk away –

I have read so many things in the past few years about why people are leaving the church. As churches, we’ve critiqued, we’ve analyzed, and

In Memory of John Hwang This first appeared on Du Mez CONNECTIONS, Kristin’s Substack newsletter on November 5. I usually keep a degree of separation

I’m very pleased today to announce a new venture, Reformed Journal Books, and to reveal the cover of our first book: Telling Stories in the

We played a lot of catch. During the last year of his life, my dad could hear very little, and what he heard, he couldn’t

As an avid watcher of all sorts of reality television, particularly anything related to American religion, I’d been on the lookout for Jill Dillard’s memoir,

As a bored junior high age resident of the south side of Chicago, I was intrigued by news that Mr. Slager was looking for workers.

I was having drinks with a friend on Saturday night when a woman at the table next to ours made really intense eye contact with

Luminous Shards There’s a rectangular stained glass lamp that sits near my desk in my study. It’s had a place there for years. My wife