Twenty-one Coptic Christian men were executed in Libya last month by people claiming association with the Islamic State. The reverberations…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMarch 10, 2015
Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died on April 8, 2013. To the extent I can…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 10, 2015
The large pencils carried in the protests and vigils after the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, caught my eye. I…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJanuary 27, 2015
It was one of the most memorable meetings of my life, hastily called without a clear reason why. When I…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 30, 2014
Joy doesn’t come easily to me. Or more accurately, exuberance. Skipping like a lamb isn’t a way I typically emote.…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 16, 2014
Ladies and Gentlemen: John the Baptizer is missing! JB: I am not missing. I am right here. I simply no…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 2, 2014
The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Armistice. Marked as the official end of World War…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 18, 2014
A couple months back, I sat in an Iowa pasture with 14,000 others to see Bill and Hillary. Don’t read…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 3, 2014
Today we welcome guest blogger Daniel Meeter, the pastor of Old First Reformed Church in Brooklyn, New York. Thanks, Daniel!…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 20, 2014
