During my last year of teaching, I read William Kent Krueger’s This Tender Land with my sophomore American Literature students. It was, as the author

In a recent class discussion on theological anthropology, one of my students raised herhand and offered the class the gift of vulnerable honesty. Looking around

I will admit it.  I had all the wrong ideas about this book.  When I saw that it was a novel-in-verse about German POWs picking

(Satchel talking with Bucky, recovering after falling from a window): “Don’t believe in the laws of gravity, eh?” “I’m fine with the laws. It’s the

Like many children raised in the 1960’s, I was taught that guns were for soldiers and police officers and certainly not for play. My brothers

I have great affection for Steven Garber, author of The Seamless Life. I met Garber through Hope College’s Veritas Forum in 2003 when he introduced

I’ve spent more than thirty years studying cells of various types. First cells like those that make up human bodies (and their misbehaving counterparts—cancer cells)

“Oof.” That’s what my friend said. I had told her I was reading an extraordinary book called Scenes with My Son. She asked what it

When the Reformed Journal asked me to review David James Duncan’s new novel, Sun House, my response was immediate: “Respectfully, no way.” No novelist has