Featured Articles
Zionism must be understood “from the standpoint of its victims”
The demonization of pro-Palestinian voices in the United States has risen dramatically. Zionists have attacked critics of Israel’s policies and practices by conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism and sought to censor discussions within the context of the 75-year-long (and I would argue illegal) Israeli occupation and the Nakba. While criticizing Zionism is viewed as antisemitism in the West, there is a need to acknowledge the Palestinian experience of displacement and dispossession resulting from the Zionist movement. Is seeking to understand the lived reality of the Palestinians antisemitism? It is also important to acknowledge much of the U.S. support of the modern state of Israel comes from Christians. Is it anti-Semitic to oppose Christian Zionism?
Featured Articles
Homecoming – Chapter One of “Rooted”
The kids were silent. Eerily silent. Quite possibly more silent than four kids aged five through ten confined to car seats have ever been in the history of road trips. They are respecting my grief, I told myself. More likely they were terrified and traumatized by the length and loudness of my wailing. They had never seen me broken down like this. They are going to need therapy, I told myself.
The New Meaning of Being Busy — Through the Lens of Scripture
The 21st century has transformed busyness into a deeply subjective experience. You can feel busy even when you aren’t physically overburdened. This new busyness is
How to Follow the Benedictine Rule
Despite its name, the Rule of St. Benedict is not actually a collection of rules. It is the constitutional document for Benedictine monasteries. It
Wandering in a Cosmic Wilderness Part 2: Glimmerings of God
The Reformed belief in the complementarity of the books of revelation offers a third way. It invites believers to open their hearts and search for
Wandering in a Cosmic Wilderness Part 1: On My Own, Slip Slidin’ Away
I look up and see heavens so vast and mysterious that I feel lost, wandering in a cosmic wilderness. The infinite immensity of space threatens
I Don’t Want to Be a Jerk
I preached on LGBTQ issues four times in forty years, once in each church I served. I tried to model how to talk about these
The Cost of Christian Cultural Warfare
Christian nationalist and culture-war ideologies offer what may sound like an appealing pathway forward. The call to “take back our country” and win the culture
Latest from the Blog
Daily blog by our regular bloggers & guest contributors.
Things Look Different Through a Camera
A good photograph, as Journey’s grandmother puts it, “Stops a little piece of time, good or bad, and saves it.”
Hell-bound on the Hilltop
On the lower plateau, a couple had staked their tent, a hundred yards away. They were set apart. Affixed to their tent was a big
A Holy and Subversive Imagination
My hope, in this series of blogposts, is not only to honor Brueggemann’s legacy, but also, using Brueggemann’s work, to brainstorm together what we as
What Is Mature Hope?
One way or another, probably all of us are pondering the possibility of hope these days. Some days we “feel” hope, some days we “do”
A Delightful Inheritance
Justin and I looked at each other over our coffees and knew at once that this would be our text as well. For in a
A God With No Borders
An old proverb says, “When the map and the terrain differ, the terrain is always right.”
With Our Hearts, as With Our Lips
For most of July, I was on an extended trip to England: partly for research, partly for vacation, and partly to prepare for my fall
The Stuff We’re Made Of
Plenty of very smart people have spent significant brain power parsing out the difference between “things” and “stuff”– and the more you dig, the more
Reviews
How Did We Get Here? Again?
How did we end up here? Again? Is there a moment when family, friends, people I know and love will realize the massive manipulation campaign
Take a Backseat, DNA!
Most of us are familiar with the “DNA as the blueprint of life” idea—that DNA contains all the information necessary to build an organism, whether
Green Street in Black and White
Green Street in Black and White shows us the history of who we have been as Christians, what we have said, how we have thought,
Worldview Theory, Whiteness, and the Future of Evangelical Faith
The problem with worldviewing, as Cook sees it, is the way it blinds us to the concrete reality of lived experience; our own and those
Sinners: Vampires, Blood & the Conquest of Death
We may now be enjoying a golden age of Black American writers and directors using the horror movie to put all that heritage to use
The Wise Leader
In this book, Uli Chi gives us a glimpse of what makes a person a wise leader and draws from his own experiences as a
Small Things Like These
This is not a happy story, per se, but a good one. A story that reminds me that those quiet murmurings of our hearts, what
The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection, and Delight
Travis West has written the book on Sabbath that we need right now. And by “we” I mean all of us–the busy, the tired, the
Poetry
Grafting Apple Shoots
Gashes in the green. Stumps and roots serve in …
Winterscape with Hair Gel and Citrus
Each day you wak to the same gray sky, snow covering the gass like scarves the women wear …
Annunciation
After Fred broke up with me,I returned to graduate schooland immersed myself in six classes,an overload, trying to heal. One sunny autumn day,I sat alone
The jar the woman left beside the well
the large jar lays beside the well of the city’s forefather …
Malchus
There are at least two Machuses in heaven. Malchus according to LUke has at least two ears but no name …
Michigan Spring
First leaves of trout lily among the roots of a bare beech tree …
Podcasts
“On Absolution” by Lila Tindall
In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma talks with Lila Robinett Tindall about her poem “On Absolution.” Lila is
“Grafting Apple Shoots” by Betsy Howard
In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma talks with Betsy Howard about her poem “Grafting Apple Shoots.” Betsy serves
“Winterscape with Hair Gel and Citrus” by Marci Rae Johnson
In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma talks with Marci Rae Johnson about her poem “Winterscape with Hair Gel and
“Annunication” by Janet Heller
In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the Poetry Edition, Rose Postma talks with Janet Ruth Heller about her poem “Annunication.” Heller is the
“The Jar Left at the Well” by Sarah Watkins
In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma talks with Sarah Watkins about her poem “The Jar the Woman Left
“Malchus” by Joshua Patch
In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma talks with Joshua Patch about his poem “Malchus.” Patch is a teacher