Blog Welcome to Coon Rapids My own disappointments and concerns are allayed somehow when I see others facing different, yet still similar, difficulties.Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 21, 2023
Blog “Tell them not to forget us!” It’s been over a month since that terrible day on October 7 when Hamas militants broke through Israeli security and…Brian KeepersNovember 20, 2023
Blog Lessons from My Students: Sexuality What makes a healthy relationship. Is there trust? Honesty? Connection? Can they be themselves with a partner? Can they work…Lynn JapingaNovember 19, 2023
Blog Saying Thanks with Grit Between Your Teeth In sifting and sorting, I can feel the granularity of life. I can turn it over in my hands, inspect…Katy SundararajanNovember 18, 2023
Blog Grounded The ground calls us down, down, down to anchor us and give us rest, to drink our tears, to connect…Heidi S. De JongeNovember 17, 2023
Blog Revive Us Again In Yorkshire, my wife and I attended an Evensong service, a hymnsing really, which remembered Billy Graham’s 1954 London crusade.David HoekemaNovember 16, 2023
Blog Hot or Cold? My memory—and my perceptions as a child—may not be correct, but I wonder what cold topics my kids overhear today’s…Dana VanderLugtNovember 15, 2023
Blog Now and Then (and the One to Come) A cartoon that made the rounds on social media around the time of the Fall time change a week ago…Scott HoezeeNovember 14, 2023
Blog An Unsung Hero of World War II “I’m no hero,” Chester Nez chuckles. “I just wanted to serve my country.” Nez grew up in New Mexico, and…Rebecca KoerselmanNovember 13, 2023
Blog Lessons from my students: The Bible Teenagers are learning calculus and physics, but in church, they do not learn about the complexities of the Bible.Lynn JapingaNovember 12, 2023