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Hope’s Two Daughters
It is this very Christian habit of eschatological hope that grants us the temporal foolishness to work for more justice, more flourishing-peace even now, before


Homo Phagon: Are We Nothing But Consumers?
We are becoming merely homo phagon—humans who consume, from the Greek phago, to devour. We are all mouth.


Fireworks and Flags in Red, White, and Green
“Daddy, are we Christian because you and mommy are Christian? If you were Muslim, would we be Muslim?”


Young Love, Big Yes!
Did young Christians in the 1980s marry early because they wanted to have sex within the bounds of marriage? Absolutely!


No Mercy: The Heart of the One Big Beautiful Bill
A heart became available, and a 10-hour transplant surgery began on Memorial Day evening. A month in the hospital following a heart transplant is standard,


O Canada! — An Immigrant Family’s Tale
We had immigrated to Canada when I took a call to a Reformed Church in America congregation in Ontario.


Hey, Look!!! This is not about Trump as an Antichrist
Much of the data on our readers can be filed under “Everything you think you know is wrong.” I tend to think the same faithful


What Do We Do with the Mad We Feel?
We should say that the biblical witness regarding anger is complicated. My working theory is that getting good and mad might be exactly what God


Harvest of Greed and Power
Fredrick reflects on the changes he witnessed from the Iowa of his childhood to Iowa now with its massive industrial farms, gutted small towns, and


Hope from the Pope
From this saga we can glean hope’s core ingredient. There are the predictable humility and gratitude but also the less predictable humor, play, and joy.


A Letter from a Queer Youth Raised in the Reformed Tradition
My Dear Siblings in Christ in the Christian Reformed Church and Reformed Church in America, Please do your best to keep an open mind and


Welcome to the Wonderful World of Bacteriophages
One goal is to find phages that will clear antibiotic resistant tuberculosis infections and infections that plague people who get a lung transplant.