“A good sermon should skate right up to the edge of heresy. Make your point to the extreme. You’ll have other sermons to pull in the other direction. Dare to go out on the thin ice. You’ll hear some cracks…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell Second Reformed Church, Pella, IA
Yesterday, during a NW Iowa blizzard, a friend and I went out for a beer. Sitting in the warm glow of sports television we talked about "stuff". Not just any stuff, but heavy stuff we usually discuss over cigarettes and…
Jason Lief Northwestern College
State of Our Union Tonight the President will deliver the delayed State of the Union speech to Congress. Its every word will be analyzed. Pundits will tote up the number of times the speech was interrupted by applause, how many…
Scott Hoezee Calvin Theological Seminary
Why are women in civil rights typically so invisible? There is some debate over the extent to which women served as organizers or leaders during the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). Charles Payne, in his study of activism in the Mississippi…
Rebecca Koerselman Northwestern College
