No doubt you’ve seen the news recently that Donald Trump is hawking the “God Bless America” Bible. How did we get to the point where
My 96-year-old mother entered hospice care a few months ago. For a while, it seemed as though she would go on forever, even though we
In County Antrim, on the north shores of Northern Ireland, lies a pathway into the sea. Thousands of interlocking columns rise from the water, forming
She seemed ancient, but she was only as old as I am now (mid-40s). She wore her hair in gray ringlets, was fond of muumuus,
“What!? You finished a novel?” “I did. And what’d you do during Covid?” “Well, I did read more.” No surprise there. Stuck at home, Americans
My wife and I live in Maryville, Tennessee, where she retired from Maryville College, a venerable Presbyterian institution (founded 1819). When people ask where Maryville
The Reformed Church in America (RCA) and the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) are close but different. The RCA seems to have more
As the flame caught a red edge of the cloth, I thought about my heroic uncle and his military service. I remembered, too, my childhood
Editor’s Note: This is another in our occasional series of spiritual autobiographies exploring the question: How do we come to be the ones we are?
