Editor’s Note: This is another entry in our continuing series that asks, “How do we come to be the ones we are?” “The Latin root
I shut my laptop abruptly late one afternoon. I realized I was holding my breath. My neck and scalp were tingling and my shoulders were
On a Saturday afternoon late last spring, the Des Moines Gay Men’s Chorus presented a concert in our church. For most of their performance, unstoppable
You can spot a military monument or war memorial from a mile away: a heroic figure holding a flag, an eagle spreading its wings in
I was sitting alone in a church pew as a visitor, newly retired after 30 years of parish ministry. We were up north in Michigan
Editor’s Note: The following is the result of conversations between Katie Roelofs, an adoptee and pastor, and Emily Helder, an adoption researcher, and clinical psychologist.
The matter of disaster was on young Sam Jensen’s mind lately, and not disasters of nature, unless his younger sisters—whose missteps cast a dark shadow
The Strange Silence of the Bible in the Church More than ten years ago, the Hebrew instructors at Western Theological Seminary (WTS) began to entertain
Editor’s Note: We continue our occasional series on “How do we come to be the ones we are?” with this reflection from April Fiet. I
