Debra Rienstra is away today. Debra has asked Katerina Parsons to allow us to post this essay, which appeared on…
Katerina ParsonsMarch 25, 2017
Omaha Beach, January 2017 This landscape reminds me of home. The winter sun, the relatively warm weather, the golden grasses…
Sarina Gruver MooreMarch 23, 2017
Last week I wondered why my clergy friends were talking about the Women at the Well (John 4) a week…
Jes KastMarch 22, 2017
Someone once observed that there is no sentence in the English language that can induce such immediate and brazen lying…
Scott HoezeeMarch 21, 2017
Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and…
The 12 EditorMarch 20, 2017
by Rebecca Koerselman Recently, I read the book Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. It is a work of fiction that…
Rebecca KoerselmanMarch 20, 2017
by Trygve Johnson One of the most moving scenes in scripture is Jesus praying in Gethsemane. Otto Dix captures this…
Trygve JohnsonMarch 19, 2017
by Erica Hughes No ideas but in things. —William Carlos Williams Salvation is not an idea—but a person, God’s body.…
Erica HughesMarch 18, 2017
https://youtu.be/IMZuic0dG1w I just finished Frederick Backman's book A Man Called Ove, the story of an old curmudgeon named Ove who…
Jason LiefMarch 17, 2017
