May 2016

Two weeks ago a friend and I took a bike trip. I bought a book—Road Biking Minnesota—so we drove up to Willmar,…

I’m one of the original twelve. (No, not apostles.) I’ve been blogging here for the past five years. And I…

by Monica Schaap Pierce “You don’t know Mary Oliver?” a friend asked earnestly. “You must remedy that,” she continued, “You’d…

It’s the most astounding answer I have received in all my years of teaching. The topic at hand was the…

By Brian Keepers “So have you been doing much artwork lately?” my friend asked me as we sat on my…

by Deb Mechler My favorite subject in high school was French. I lived in rural northern Iowa, where small schools…

Jesus, lover of my soul Let me to thy bosom fly. When babies are new and tiny and soft, they…

Years ago, I listened to Phillip Yancey reading from a new book of his, a book titled What's So Amazing…

I was not born into the church. Though I did eventually grow up in it. It was the early 1980’s.…