Blog Hard Pressed Hard pressing is how wine is made! When a vintner presses the grapes for wine, they must be careful not…Heidi S. De JongeJanuary 13, 2023
Blog What if Everything Changes? In this very moment, everything is changing. The challenge and the call is to inhabit this time. I mustn’t be…Heidi S. De JongeDecember 16, 2022
Blog Something’s Gotta Give Someone’s gotta give. . .in order to kindle conversations that help us find a way between and through and above…Heidi S. De JongeNovember 28, 2022
Blog A Call Away Usually when we are being called away from something it is because we are being called to something else. But…Heidi S. De JongeNovember 11, 2022
Blog Pastors are People Who Stay “Pastors are people who stay.” My husband recently attended the CRC chaplains’ conference in Grand Rapids and Professor Danjuma Gibson…Heidi S. De JongeOctober 7, 2022
Blog Leaving (and Returning) I am heading into a big transition. In a few weeks, I will preach my final sermon in the church…Heidi S. De JongeSeptember 9, 2022
Blog Blood and Water Flowed A man in my community died last month. After a twelve month tangle with glioblastoma, he entered a ten-day rapid…Heidi S. De JongeAugust 12, 2022
Blog Dream a Little Dream A few weeks ago, I had a dream. In the dream, the world was about to end. All that was…Heidi S. De JongeJuly 15, 2022
Blog Forty-Five Years in the Christian Reformed Church The Christian Reformed Church of North America has always been my home. I was baptized by my dad – a…Heidi S. De JongeJune 17, 2022
Blog Only a Matter of Time When she comes to me, she usually comes at night - in that little valley between awake and asleep. I…Heidi S. De JongeMay 20, 2022