Blog Care as Connection Caring is complicated. Which means parenting is complicated. And friendship is complicated. And working in care-giving jobs is complicated. What…Heidi S. De JongeSeptember 22, 2023
Blog Telling the Truth About God I’ve been thinking a lot about truth-telling lately.I’m working on a presentation for a preaching conference next month. I’ve titled…Laura de JongSeptember 21, 2023
Blog Free to be an American For some, the relationship between faith and American citizenship is quite simple: there’s no tension at all. To be an…Jeff MunroeSeptember 20, 2023
Blog By Chance? The New York Times has been, one suspects, doing very well these days through its Games/Puzzle division. Of course for…Scott HoezeeSeptember 19, 2023
Blog We Want a King (or Queen) I was surprised to see the book framed by Samuel 8. The people came to Samuel and said: Place a…Rebecca KoerselmanSeptember 18, 2023
Blog Power & Vulnerability Those difficult spaces become places that draw you together, rather than driving you apart.Jen Holmes CurranSeptember 17, 2023
Blog Chronological Loneliness Distant from my parents’ and their parents’ worlds, scrambling to understand my children’s world, I feel a kind of chronological…Debra RienstraSeptember 16, 2023
Blog A Thing of Beauty How long ago? It was back in the days of the dropkick, a move designed to surprise the defense and…James C. SchaapSeptember 15, 2023
Blog Wolfy thing it isn’t technological prowess that sets humanity apart, rather it is an emergent capacity for self-reflection about how we relate…Tim Van DeelenSeptember 14, 2023
Blog Special Olympics as Beth-el The difference between proficiency and deficiency evaporates—there are simply two team members, two equal persons, two fellow human beings, two…James GouldSeptember 13, 2023