You'll never guess what came on the UPS truck the other day—a life-sized cardboard cut out of Bob Ross. You…
Jason LiefAugust 31, 2018
"But what if you die, and we're not with you?" My nearly 12-year-old daughter asked me this last week as…
Heidi S. De JongeAugust 29, 2018
The man wore a blazing-yellow shirt open at his chest. With thumbs hooked into the pockets of his black pants,…
Tom BoogaartAugust 28, 2018
In my last post here I reflected on Jennifer Senior’s book on parenting, All Joy and No Fun: the Paradox…
Rebecca KoerselmanAugust 27, 2018
I am feeling my mortality. On the one hand, I look back at my life and see a thousand mistakes…
Gregory LoveAugust 26, 2018
Last week I was leafing through some back pages in the history of my own congregation, Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed…
James BrattAugust 25, 2018
It's an odd title, Mystery Having Eight Mothers, and she didn't have an editor. You can't help but smile at an occasional…
James C. SchaapAugust 24, 2018
I’m aware that there’s a certain science -- even a whole industry’s worth of church curriculum -- devoted to the…
Kate KooymanAugust 23, 2018
"What we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how..." --William Wordsworth, The Prelude I’m starting to…
Jennifer L. HolbergAugust 22, 2018
