The sudden death of the actor James Gandolfini at the age of 51 reminded lots of people of those years watching “The Sopranos” and the

Growing up in the CRC there were certain hymns we’d sing from the old blue Psalter Hymnal that contained lines that always stuck with me.  

My family and I just spent our annual first full weekend at a small cottage we have about an hour north of Grand Rapids.  It’s

The past six days are to me a blur, and the ordinary way of remembering days past seems not to apply.  Anyone reading this who

It’s difficult for me to believe that it’s been now close to 8 years since I left my last congregation as pastor and weekly preacher.  

On Easter Monday I caught the first 20 minutes of The Diane Rhem Show on NPR in which Diane was interviewing the Pulitizer Prize-winning novelist

Understandably enough, the world’s attention last week centered on Rome and the elevation of a new pope.  Shoot, I’m not even Catholic and I had

Ever since Star Wars was in the running back in 1978 when I was 14 years old I have watched the annual broadcast of the

Because I have been invited to teach a preaching course at a conference in Uganda this coming August, I recently paid a visit to the