Why did Calvinism thrive in Hungary? Because of the eternal law of politics: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

She was, to me, an old and unfussy grandma, but her hands were slender, with fair unblemished skin and beautifully shaped, tapered nails. No polish,

It’s been such a gorgeous autumn this year here in West Michigan, temperate and luminous and providing every excuse to escape outdoors. There’s never a

U2 is celebrating in the face of despair, betting that rock and roll can be a needed antidote to dwelling on what’s bad.

The sheer torrent of political advertising hitting us here is stunning. Little of it is positive. Even less of it is fully true.

There may have been a significant issue at stake in all this. But who of us would be surprised were we to discover one day

Abraham, paragon of biblical faith, is complicated, contradictory, both faithful and deeply flawed.

Our faith’s preferred metaphors tend to emphasize motionlessness as the goal state.

Plenty is quieter than abundance. It does not promise everyone will have everything they want or that hardship will disappear. Plenty asks whether what God

When we open a book, we must grant the author and their created world the status of a neighbor. We treat them with hospitality. We

It starts as early as playground spats about who gets the best toy. It continues through a lifetime of temptation to covet any number of