I have a lot of friends who work for nonprofits. This meant that Tuesday was a day to brace for. Especially on Facebook, Giving Tuesday has given me something of the same feeling I got when I walked through the…
I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have…
I got click-baited this week by the headline, “How To Raise Sons Who Don’t Sexually Assault”. This has been on my mind a lot, since watching the Kavanaugh hearings and realizing how many Brett Kavanaughs I know. It is among…
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what…
My favorite line in the Belhar Confession tells us that the church’s job is “to know and bear one another’s burdens.” I think about this all the time. Not the bearing part -- the knowing. I remember reading a post…
I’m aware that there’s a certain science -- even a whole industry’s worth of church curriculum -- devoted to the actual list of Scripturally-sanctioned spiritual gifts for the upbuilding of the body and for the common good. You can do…
If I were you, I would have stopped paying attention a while ago. The maddening and sickening work of keeping track of the constant headlines is just too much for any sane person to handle. I would have stopped paying…
It's been a busy week, since both the RCA and CRC held their Synods at Calvin College. In lieu of writing more words, I'm happy to share a prayer bulletin that was written by the CRC's Office of Social Justice,…
I try to have a sense of humor, so when someone sent me a video about Social Justice Warriors, poking fun at my culture of political correctness and moral outrage, I played along and chuckled. I can be over-the-top. It’s…
Last week we marked Ascension Day, forty days since the resurrection of Jesus, and the day that his body was taken up into heaven. The writer of Acts makes a big deal out of the details here -- he gave…
