Who remembers church on New Years Eve? In the Black Church, Watch Night celebrated the Emancipation Proclamation.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJanuary 2, 2022
What informs today's White Evangelicals? Theology or Culture? Scripture or Tradition? David French explores.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 12, 2021
Among American pastors under age 45, 46 percent have considered leaving ministry in the last year.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 7, 2021
More than a month has passed since General Synod. Time has allowed me to sort through my emotions and become what I believe is more objective about the RCA and its future. In a way, I wish I could have been at the point that I am now prior to General Synod. I see glimmers of hope for the RCA and I acknowledge that God is doing a new thing through the chaos in which we find ourselves. Yet I…
Cornelis KorsDecember 6, 2021
A five-minute interview from On Point: a pastor shares on the divisions, friction, and toll to his church during the past few years.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 28, 2021
What Americans hear about social justice at church -- and what they do about it. From "The Conversation."
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 26, 2021
The American church's obsession with numbers -- and how it distorts us, from The Presbyterian Outlook
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 24, 2021
Neither a policy statement nor a sign can be the end of our discussion or action on racial justice. The Holy Spirit is leading us into difficult but important conversations around racial discrimination and justice. This is happening at the same time of a major demographic shift in America, where the white majority is becoming a minority. At the recent RCA General Synod, General Secretary Eddie Aleman said, “The future of the RCA is multi-ethnic…I love to say this is…
Kent FryNovember 22, 2021