These are strange times for anyone in ministry. They’re especially difficult for people in youth ministry. Andrew Root’s The End of Youth Ministry?: Why Parents
In May, 1999, Lewis B. Smedes published an essay in Perspectives titled “Like the Wideness of the Sea?” The article made quite a splash in
Editor’s Note: On December 27, 2021. we ran an essay entitled “Reformed and Always . . . Deconstructing” by Howard Schaap. That essay included Schaap’s
I baptized my older daughter, Sarah, when she was three months old. She was not my first baptism, though she was among my first. I
It’s possible that this time around, you don’t feel quite right saying, “Happy New Year.” I haven’t heard from too many people who feel optimistic
As a matter of survival, I generally stay away from social media mud-slinging contests. However, last June, when someone posted an anti-COVID vaccine link, I
I don’t have a lot of clear memories of my first Christmas day in India, but I do know I went to a circus. I
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,
