This is the commemorative hundredth-anniversary book for Alpine Avenue Christian Reformed Church, the church in which I grew up. The anniversary occurred in 1981 when

Music’s power to connect and reconcile, like that of language, is not automatic; it has to be built.

March 15 was the day the Wisconsin State Climatology Office declared as the official thaw date.

I’m writing this on Tuesday, March 25—a fascinating confluence of a day because it’s Flannery O’Connor’s 100thbirthday, it’s Dante Day in Florence (because it’s the

When I think of what the “church growth movement” gave me, my answers would be anxiety, shame, fear of failure, resentment, and a few other

Paul did not include the words “comfy” or “detached” in his list. Sometimes the most true thing to acknowledge is that we are worried. Sometimes

Soon enough your life is colored by battles you never signed up for and obligations that you wouldn’t have chosen for yourself.

Although we played by the rules and didn’t do anything wrong, there is no longer a place for us in the Christian Reformed Church.

Spiegel im Spiegel – German for “Mirrors in the mirror.” An infinity of mirror images repeating themselves. Have you stood in the space between the