Today we welcome guest blogger Chuck DeGroat. Chuck teaches counseling and pastoral care at Western Theological Seminary, in Holland, Michigan. He co-founded Newbigin House of
by Chuck DeGroat My vocation is to be love. St. Thérèse of Lisieux I grew up in a very conservative Reformed tradition that tended in
By David Pettit The problem with many poems, my instructor explained, is certainty. The poet tries too hard to say something; is too sure of
Are you a person that has an answer for everything? Jemar Tisby, an American historian, wrote a meditation entitled “The People Who Don’t Have Any
Woody dropped out of school in 8th grade after the teachers at his Christian school told him he “wouldn’t amount to much.”
If missions are to be faithful, they must be willing to relinquish certainty, confront patriarchy and racism, and place human flourishing—especially that of children—at the
I spent a day with the legendary basketball coach John Wooden once. He was 93-years-old at the time. Yes, I know that I am shamelessly
In the summer of 1843, as Isabella Van Wagenen set out on the road as Sojourner Truth, Orestes Brownson was publishing a series of articles
An art gallery downtown. Makoto Fujimura reads from The Four Quartets, testifies to what T.S. Eliot has meant to him. Tells of reading the poem
