Blog Angels on the Edge “But what can you do? What’s going to happen to me? I thought reassignment was only a remote possibility! But…Debra RienstraJune 29, 2024
Blog The Best Story Wins I want to focus on the power of meaning-making narratives. In the wearying events of the last few years, we’ve…Debra RienstraJuly 9, 2022
Blog Overheard at AngelPAC: Conference of the Angels of the Churches In a vast, blazingly bright atrium, crowds of church angels mill about, carrying tote bags emblazoned with the AngelPAC logo.…Debra RienstraApril 2, 2022
Blog I Wish I Could Tell They are some of the most authentic people I’ve been privileged to know. They are gifts to the church.Marilyn PaarlbergFebruary 10, 2022
Blog Secession Who am I to judge the seceders? But I do grieve the loss of what we had.Daniel MeeterFebruary 7, 2022
Blog Ephesians and the RCA Today It’s jarring to read a public appeal by a pastor saying it’s a “necessity” for congregations to leave the Reformed…Wes Granberg-MichaelsonNovember 3, 2021
Blog Defining Reformed So let’s call this an exercise in religio-anthropological observation. A kind of disambiguation attempt.Debra RienstraOctober 23, 2021
Blog What I Saw at General Synod, III We resisted the current cultural norm of running to our silos, sitting in our own predetermined circles, and telling each…Sarah Palsma and Chad PierceOctober 22, 2021
Blog What I Saw at General Synod, II This week, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, we will be hearing from six delegates to the Reformed Church in America's General…Sophie Mathonnet-VanderWell and Dwayne JacksonOctober 21, 2021
Blog What I Saw at General Synod, I The Reformed Journal asked six delegates to Synod to share a glimpse of the meeting. For the next three days,…Megan Hodgin and Benjamin Van Zetten BruinsOctober 20, 2021