Self-care is building a healthy, sustainable life that you don't need to escape from.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 3, 2022
A phenomenal digital resource, includes an essay by Kristin Kobes DuMez of Calvin University.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJanuary 6, 2022
God is compassion. God is mercy. I see God, like Pearl, in a garden. With her hands, she clears away thorn and weed. She sends rain and summons life from the soil. Light warms and synthesizes unseen elements into nutrient. She offers food, and generous souls share it, because,
Keith MannesJanuary 3, 2022
But in reformed worldview conversations, that adjective “reformed” means we’re committed to something more. We’re committed to complexity, committed to deconstruction, and to reforming again beyond that deconstruction, committed to listening to opposing voices to not only hear what they have to say but to take to heart their critiques, to even call them prophetic when they are. It means we can admit when we’re wrong and that we’re not even afraid of ideas that seem to challenge scripture. It…
Howard SchaapDecember 27, 2021
The latest from Pew -- 40% call religion "very important" in their life. 25% attend worship weekly.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 22, 2021
We’ve stumbled through the formation of our Christmas traditions both in India and in Michigan. We’ve bumbled it in both places at different times, but we’ve also shared good traditions in both places. My son insists on burning incense when we light our Advent candles in Michigan. And one of my proudest adult moments was when JP’s grandfather asked for seconds of the Cherry Walnut Christmas Coffeecake that I painstakingly baked in India. What it all comes down to is…
Katy SundararajanDecember 20, 2021
"Out of the blue, she messaged me saying she thought Jesus was speaking to her and she wanted to read the bible."
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 11, 2021
Kobes DuMez is interviewed by Politico on "Why Republicans Can't Stop Talking about Masculinity."
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 23, 2021