The teaching of Christian worship is a relatively new phenomenon at church-related colleges, seminaries, and divinity schools. Prior to 1965, there were no full-time professors

Green by Jean Janzen That summer the cornfields were drunk with incessant rains, and at night we could hear new leaves splitting out of the

Then I looked and heard… Revelation 5:11 I usually look around a good bit when I’m worshiping. Regardless of whether I’m in the pulpit or

In Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” the lovestruck knight Arcita is banished from the dukedom of Theseus, but he sneaks back in and disguises himself as a

Walter died recently. He was 93. He was blind and a home-bound member of our congregation. For the last five years of his life I

A friend of mine once commented with some wit about the recovery of liturgical lament. Dryly he asked, “Does this mean that churches will begin

Today’s worship is riddled with polarities. “Traditional” is set against “contemporary.”1 Hymn is set against praise song. The wisdom of professional musicians is juxtaposed with

My father died this past February. After several years of slow decline, he passed away free of pain, surrounded by three generations of family, and

The expansive claim that “our world belongs to God” has long been a central principle undergirding Christian– and especially Reformed Christian– engagement with biological science.