Before we kids left home, I remember spring and summer evenings as hours filled with checking on the garden, watching storms gather, sweeping the kitchen floor, and finally getting us kids to bed. When Mom and Dad became empty-nesters, however,…

The absence of space startled me. The longer I stood there, the more I was struck by the weightiness of that lack of space. Next, I became emotional, which surprised me. I have been listening to the discussions and debates…

Debra Rienstra is away today. Please welcome our guest writer, Katerina Parsons, from our sister blog, the post calvin. Katerina graduated from Calvin College in 2015 with a double major in English writing and international development studies. She has lived…

There's an old book by Henry Zylstra, Testament of Vision, that contains a assertion that I come back to again and again: literature should give us "more to be Christian with." How do the stories we tell, the stories we…

Read: Genesis 2:1-3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. Genesis 2:3 “It’s not all about you.” This caustic comeback has become something…