Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church, by Abram Van Engen. Abram’s book releases on

Compared to ten years ago, the Reformed Church in America is missing many churches that used to be part of its organizational structure. Many churches—and

The Toad Our home, like so many Midwestern houses, has a basement. It’s where Stacey and I have an office. My desk faces an exterior

Alice Walker’s short story “The Welcome Table” introduces an old, poor Black woman in the South, who, one Sunday, decides to worship at the church

Scriptural Foundation When the Prophet Elijah flees from Jezebel after a bit of a triumph in his ministry, he winds up in a cave at

As part of Black History Month, my wife and I attended a church-sponsored theatre showing of Origin, a movie based on the story of Isabel

The biblical portrayal of darkness, explored in Part One of this essay, is multivalent. While some passages portray darkness as a negative force trying to

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series on applying a biblical understanding of darkness to one’s life. Part Two will run next