Though I’ve had my share of compliments on my preaching, there was nary a mention at my retirement dinner of any particular sermon. “Being there”

Baku is a city of 2.5 million people, halfway around the world from my home in Michigan. What would my knowledge of tree names in

Most days I walk the loop through the cemetery of the First Reformed Church in Pompton Plains, N.J., where my wife Stacey is the Co-Pastor.

On a Damascus Road of sorts, seeing beyond the proof text, I’m able to say to myself and anyone who’ll listen, “Yes, really!” Come cancer,

Aging and retirement are distinct concepts, of course, but they frequently intersect. For clarity’s sake, let’s agree that aging is a natural biological process that

Job hopes that God will long for him and come calling. In short, he hopes that God will remember him. In the life and ministry

He opened our eyes to what we all knew but had forgotten: that prior to the Reformation, the Catholic Church had devalued the sermon in

Words are absorbent. Used often enough in partisan slogans or ad campaigns, or by certain religious groups or by “influencers” (itself a word with a

My journey to Palestine and Israel began 20 years ago. A Palestinian Christian, Claudette Habesch, then the Secretary General of Caritas Jerusalem, spoke at a

What now? That’s been the question on my mind since the 2024 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church, and it’s the question on the mind

I am teaching a first-year seminar this semester and my chosen course title is “Think.” We also weave a “big question” into our course. My

“You know that phrase, ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?’ What if… what doesn’t kill you… just doesn’t kill you. Maybe it has nothing