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"But what if you die, and we're not with you?" My nearly 12-year-old daughter asked me this last week as…

The man wore a blazing-yellow shirt open at his chest. With thumbs hooked into the pockets of his black pants,…

In my last post here I reflected on Jennifer Senior’s book on parenting, All Joy and No Fun: the Paradox…

I am feeling my mortality. On the one hand, I look back at my life and see a thousand mistakes…

Last week I was leafing through some back pages in the history of my own congregation, Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed…

It's an odd title, Mystery Having Eight Mothers, and she didn't have an editor. You can't help but smile at an occasional…

I’m aware that there’s a certain science -- even a whole industry’s worth of church curriculum -- devoted to the…

"What we have loved, Others will love, and we will teach them how..." --William Wordsworth, The Prelude I’m starting to…

I will set out by way of you to Spain, and I know that when I come to you, I…

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” - Simone Weil “When…