October 2016

This past Wednesday my good friend Andy Root from Luther Seminary led a workshop for youth leaders on the topic…

(Photo: flickr user Rolands Lakis) By Kate Kooyman When I was a kid, my aunt was babysitting me while my…

One of my colleagues regularly keeps a commonplace book. Commonplace books have a long and interesting history, but they are…

by Chuck DeGroat It’s the very first question God asks after Adam and Eve’s fall from grace. They are hiding,…

By Brian Keepers Two Sundays ago, a parishioner pulled me aside after worship and asked, with tears in her eyes,…

by Randy Lubbers When first even the least drop of faith is instilled in our minds, we begin to contemplate…

Last Friday, when the Trump video hit the news like a meteorite, my spouse spent the day watching the reaction…

It was, at the time, just another feature of northwest Iowa culture, I thought, like talk about "a hundred weight,"…

by Eric M. Washington Intersectionality is a social scientific category of analysis in which scholars study and analyze how different,…

Tired of the election? Wondering if people still care about the type of words we use to communicate the accuracy…