Non-traditional weddings raise anxieties, uncertainties, and fear. What does it signal if I attend? Am I complicit? Am I condoning?
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMay 18, 2022
We’d all agree that white, American, Protestant churches have become “nichier,” more homogeneous.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMarch 29, 2022
Perhaps I could blame Jimmy Carter for my political cynicism. After all, he gets blamed for so many other things.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMarch 15, 2022
Grace-filled suggests that our splintering would be nice splintering, genteel splintering. We’re good people, after all. We’re Christians.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 15, 2022
No one, including Biden himself, is suggesting he should be added to Mount Rushmore. And that’s okay. I’m content with…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJanuary 18, 2022
The door is shut. It’s too late. Those words still sting a little. But maybe in a good way.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 7, 2021
Often when you read "The Twelve," savor a poem, or ponder a podcast on the RJ site, don’t you find…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 30, 2021
Pop culture swoons about love so much. Every once in a while they can’t help but veer into Reformed love.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 16, 2021
Can I call a path “cute”? So precise and worn, bounded by knee-high weeds, completely invisible from the road.
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 2, 2021
