The Reformed Church (RCA) of Highland Park, New Jersey, stands on a side street just off the main thoroughfare of this residential town of about

I am delighted that this book came to be written; I worry that it will not be read as widely as it should be. As

Some years ago a psychologist named Jonathan Haidt published some very intriguing data on what he called “elevation,” which is the opposite of disgust. We

Several years ago I was in England, researching the life of a very minor Modernist poet. I had dutifully made the rounds of libraries far

Those are the gentle, mournful sounds of a denomination imploding. Sad to say, they are not the first, nor will they be the last. But

In “The Mournful Sounds of Implosion,” my colleague at Hope College, Don Luidens, delivers an advance eulogy for what he sees as the “pending demise”

Rittenhouse Square arguably forms the heart of Center City Philadelphia. Walking past it on the Sunday morning of Labor Day weekend is a counter-cultural experience.

One of the less familiar annunciation stories in the Old Testament is the conversation between the prophet Elisha and the woman from Shunem. She was