David Hoekema

A momentous anniversary, eclipsed by current crises, demands our remembrance today. Events of 75 years ago changed our world profoundly and irreversibly. In August 1945 it took just a few milliseconds for a powder charge of conventional explosives to set…

I have been thinking recently about some remarkable individuals whom I met on a recent journey to sites in the Middle East and East Africa to seek out Muslims and Christians who are creating channels for better mutual understanding. Dr.…

For the past fifteen years I have enjoyed the good fortune of living on Lake Michigan’s eastern shore, in the home where my children formed some of their happiest memories decades ago visiting their grandpa and grandma. Now it is…

As Islam around the globe marks the month-long fast of Ramadan in this strange time of pandemic – no gathering for prayers in the mosque, no one but family around the table for the iftar meal -- my thoughts go…

by David Hoekema The last few weeks have been stressful, for me and all my colleagues, with piles of papers and worries about whether Calvin College's eminence in Christian liberal arts will survive the budget pressures bearing down on the…