Once upon a time, way back in my seminary days, I found myself weeping in my library cubicle. I was reading “In One Body Through

David Brooks’ gracious tribute to Tim Keller in Tuesday’s New York Times is the kind of lament that manages somehow to bring light into and through the palpable

A six-pack of IPAs and an almond-currant loaf from the Dutch import store are hard to hide in an expense report, so I’ll probably let

When you grow up in Pella, Iowa, you have an automatic version of heritage that adheres to you at birth. We all knew the story

When I read here on the RJ blog about “Better Together: A Third Way,” an organized effort to hold together the Christian Reformed Church, my

I left for college on a Sunday afternoon in August, crawling into a Thunderbird with three other students, waving goodbye to parents and siblings, and

Disclaimer: Sherman Street, this is not written for you. You’re doing just fine. Thank you for that. Disclaimer #2: To everyone else, if you find

There are a series of TikTok videos I’ve been getting on my For You Page these last couple of months. In classic TikTok fashion, I