“A good sermon should skate right up to the edge of heresy. Make your point to the extreme. You’ll have…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 12, 2019
A colleague opened a meeting with a prayer, “God, we know that you reveal far more than we are able…
Leanne Van DykFebruary 10, 2019
When I started my first “official” pastoral role in the late 1990’s, I immediately hung a painting of Rembrandt’s Return…
Chuck DeGroatFebruary 9, 2019
Yesterday, during a NW Iowa blizzard, a friend and I went out for a beer. Sitting in the warm glow…
Jason LiefFebruary 8, 2019
Meeting at First Church I’ve entered an incarnated coma. Images have been frozen in place for 40 years: the biblical…
Kent BusmanFebruary 7, 2019
In the third month after the Israelites left Egypt, they arrived at the Desert of Sinai and camped in front…
Heidi S. De JongeFebruary 6, 2019
State of Our Union Tonight the President will deliver the delayed State of the Union speech to Congress. Its every…
Scott HoezeeFebruary 5, 2019
Why are women in civil rights typically so invisible? There is some debate over the extent to which women served…
Rebecca KoerselmanFebruary 4, 2019
A friend of mine says that Mary Oliver saved his life. Her vivid opening line in the poem, “The Journey”…
Leanne Van DykFebruary 3, 2019
