Neil Young’s guitar growls and stomps with old testimony buzz and smoke in the bare trees. One of the most instantly recognized riffs in rock

One of the joys of being a college professor is watching students come more and more into their own—understanding their intelligence and their gifts, growing

When I was a senior in high school in 1960, the young people’s magazine of my denomination (Christian Reformed Church) asked me and several other

Terry Gross was interviewing the author Judy Blume on NPR’s Fresh Air. Blume had grown up secular Jewish, and Gross was asking her about her

With the coming of spring comes the return of a grief that I have just been discovering over the last few years.  A couple of

When Spring Doesn’t Show Up… Or maybe I should say, “When Spring Doesn’t Show Up the way you want or expect it to… because, obviously,

My dear friend, Jenna, is a pastor in West Michigan. This Easter Sunday morning, she told me the story of one of her parishioners, who

This weekend I watched the new John Mulaney Netflix comedy special, Baby J. Mulaney’s had an eventful couple of years, and he recounts much of

Jesus was a Jew until John made him a Baptist.  I hope you are laughing because that claim is funny. It’s a little one liner