By Lynn Japinga Judges 20-21 Last Sunday in this space I told the story of the concubine and the Levite…

"Did you know that the phrase 'daily bread' in the Lord's Prayer really means 'supersubstantial bread'? Like, supernatural?" This is…

Walking down the hallway, my wife noticed a poster advertising two events. The first was a princess ball, a daddy…

Honor Dr. King by honoring black women. That's what I decided to do last year and continue to do so…

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” contains sentence after sentence of searing and memorable prose. But already…

Among many evangelicals (or whatever they should be called these days), the tension between science and faith is real. Today,…

By Lynn Japinga Sometimes the only moral lesson to be found in a biblical story is “Go and do NOT…

By Keith Starkenburg Let me offer a confession. I don’t like growing older. On my birthday, I needed a little…

  I wasn't born and reared here. My home--I'm not sure how anyone finally defines that word--is really the western shore…

By Kate Kooyman Today I got to hold a baby who was less than a day old. I got to…