Blog Kristin Du Mez’s Calvinism and My Own Religious identity isn't only being shaped by doctrines and beliefs, but also living in community with others shaped by those…James BrattMarch 24, 2023
Blog Portents of a Lesser Year Compared to the big bangs of 1922, 1923 offered mostly whimpers. But small signals can have big reverberations, so we…James BrattDecember 30, 2022
Blog In the Toils of Thanksgiving Lincoln’s proclamation brilliantly interwove the two types of New England holy days, the feast and the fast.James BrattDecember 2, 2022
Blog My Affirming Flame I can’t help being dogged by a sense of gray for all that. Slate gray, storm-cloud gray. And that’s because…James BrattOctober 28, 2022
Blog Our Neighbors’ Health For me this is all mind-boggling. I grew up hearing that the United States was #1.James BrattSeptember 23, 2022
Blog Watergate Remembered We can’t let summer 2022 pass without marking the 50th anniversary of Watergate.James BrattAugust 26, 2022
Blog Stewing Over Synod Beware of sinners, for they shall try to deceive you; but beware especially the saints, for they deceive themselves.James BrattJuly 29, 2022
Blog Straws in the Winds of the Culture Wars Ralph Janssen -- token in a Dutch-American culture war, itself a miniature of a broader American turbulence born out of…James BrattJune 8, 2022
Blog Second Chances in Anatolia No victories without shadows. No second chances without further regrets. But perhaps also no disasters without hope.James BrattMay 25, 2022
Blog The Seen, the Unseen, and the Forgotten With mobile phones and social media, everybody everywhere can watch the horrors of Vladimir Putin’s savagery up close in real…James BrattApril 6, 2022