Blog Sin, Racism, and Privilege Total depravity I am a worm, not human All our righteous deeds are like filthy rags I have a natural…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellSeptember 6, 2016
Blog The Emergency Brake of History Sometimes it takes twenty-five years for something you hear to take on its full meaning. We’re coming to a time…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellAugust 9, 2016
Blog Time Runs Short As time passes and age creeps up, windows of possibility slide nearly closed. Time runs short. Hopes are not realized.…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJuly 12, 2016
Blog Calvinist Romance I have this weird knack of looking for Calvinism-of-a-sort, oddly appearing in pop culture, especially music and sappy romantic love.…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJune 28, 2016
Blog A View from the Bleachers You probably heard the story of the Christian caught in a flood. An emergency responder pounds on his door, “Get…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJune 4, 2016
Blog With a Capital T It’s the most astounding answer I have received in all my years of teaching. The topic at hand was the…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMay 17, 2016
Blog Perfect Attendance “Regular” worship attendance is now defined as participating twice in one month, according to EWSA, Evangelical Worship Statistics of America.…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMay 3, 2016
Blog On a Hill Far Away I can still see the bright red oxygenated blood spilling out of my sister’s head. Researchers increasingly say memories from…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellApril 19, 2016
Blog Opossums and the Image of God I’m an animal lover. Furry creatures have their way with me. Except for opossums. They look greasy, grey, and snarly.…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellApril 5, 2016
Blog Jesus and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day It’s Tuesday, the Tuesday of Holy Week. I am a pretty-informed, long-term Christian. Yet for much of my life, if…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMarch 22, 2016