We were asked to make a list of goals for our marriage. I only remember two, and we failed at both.

When asked by an interviewer how he wished to be remembered, Buechner said, “I would choose the fiction.” Yet few readers engage Buechner’s fiction today.

Too often in church history and in churches today we have rushed to premature judgment assuming we know who is clearly evil and who is

A long commute and late nights at my first job meant I was tired every evening and longed for every weekend.

Becoming a pastor — to say nothing of starting a new church ! — can feel like signing up to open a Blockbuster Video location

High summer and the plant life here in the muggy Midwest is pumping with all abandon, turning sunlight, soil minerals, and atmosphere into plant tissues,

I am nothing if not a pragmatist—I always care about proceeding grounded in principle, of course, but I mostly want to know how (and by

I too was left behind, a child of the CRC who once hoped to serve the CRC. I have grieved. I have questioned and been

We gather outside the church. We’re there to protest. I was protesting outside the church because protest is deep in our Christian bones.

In Africa, the Church continues to grow and multiply. With 780 million believers, Africa is now the center of world Christianity.

Happy Fourth of July! Back by popular demand, we invite our sometime guest columnist Pious Petunia to offer sage advice wisdom for coping with the

Tomorrow, of course, marks the 250th anniversary of the declaration of American independence. What should be the watchwords for so momentous an occasion? Celebration, joy,