Global missions are too critical to the work of God’s Kingdom to be owned and controlled by denominations. This more or less sums up the

RIO (red, indigo, orange) did right by us. He’s a robust and feisty male piping plover and Vince, the Park Service, biologist heard him calling

This week I’m on vacation, hopefully being mindful in the way articulated by the poem I shared here last time. And next week is the

As significant as the discovery of the wheel.   Some experts are appraising the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this way. It is a technological

I did not attend or watch the CRC synod of 2023. I anticipated that I could not bear to do so. I have been a

Writing on these Sundays in July, I decided to go back to my childhood on an Iowa farm and all the treasures I learned from

A few years ago, a friend and I read Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, and even years later, it’s still one of the best books I’ve read.

“Come build a church with soul and spirit, come build a church of flesh and bone. We need no tower rising skyward; no house of

My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was a priest in the Netherlands. That’s thirteen “greats” if you weren’t counting. His name was Feito Ruardi, and he was born in