
I Don’t Know . . . But I Live in Hope: A Conversation with Poet, Undertaker, Essayist Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch has been called “The Bard of the Midwest.” He operated the Lynch and Sons Funeral Home in Milford, Michigan, for decades, and is
Thomas Lynch has been called “The Bard of the Midwest.” He operated the Lynch and Sons Funeral Home in Milford, Michigan, for decades, and is
In October, I was a delegate to the 2021 Reformed Church in America General Synod in Tucson, Arizona. It was my 30th consecutive General Synod,
Many days in western Nebraska are beautiful, and the sun shines more often than it doesn’t. The sky is blue and expansive, and the landscape
At the end of 2019, the elders of the Third Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan, and I agreed that I would retire in July, 2021.
Reproductive rights are once again in the news this fall with Texas’s latest attempt to restrict access to abortion. Though litigation surrounding Texas’s new abortion
You will abide, I hope, my looking back a bit. It comes easily to a man or woman in his/her 70s. Just ask. But if
I had an experience early in 2017 that still comes back from time to time to poke my worldview, my fragile hold on “things church,”
“Touch has a memory,” said the poet John Keats, who stared down the impending loss of his own life: death from tuberculosis at the age
“Stay curious just a little bit longer.” A Cohort Detroit (the ministry I lead) alum introduced me to this wisdom from Michael Bungay Stanier, author
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