Light and Hope for Advent
We light the first purple candle in the Advent wreath for the prophets, the ones who spoke with hope about the coming Messiah. The small
We light the first purple candle in the Advent wreath for the prophets, the ones who spoke with hope about the coming Messiah. The small

Every year we make the same trip. We load up the kids in the minivan and head over to chop down the family Christmas tree
When I realized that I had been assigned Thanksgiving Day for my second blog, I moaned with weariness and dread. I even avoided blogging until,

For this Thanksgiving Eve, a re-post that continues to seem timely: I have a deep ambivalence about Thanksgiving as a holiday. For example, it’s not
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”

This past Thursday and Friday I gathered with several hundred other people for the inaugural conference of the Newbigin House of Studies, a partnership between
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…”