5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (438+ words) Laura de Jong is a doctoral student at Fuller Theological Seminary, studying the intersection of rituals, funerals, and belonging. She is ordained in the Christian Reformed Church of North America, and has served as the preaching pastor for two congregations....

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (92+ words) Kate Bowler offers some words in a prayer she's titled, "for the ones who bear witness." She says, "Blessed are the noticers'The witness-bearers. The story-holders. The ones who tiptoe to the edge right alongside us, knowing that the very act…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago  (815+ words) School is full of reading, writing, lunchboxes, lost jackets at recess, assignments with no names, and endless pencils to sharpen, but the most valuable times in class are when we share a story." All the students in my elementary school…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (506+ words) My time was my own and I could simply enjoy a day at the Critter Barn with my grandkids. I was basking in the glow of retirement " no more lesson plans, deadlines, grading papers or those dreaded self-studies. I had…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1439+ words) From our perspective as faculty at Christian liberal arts institutions, we see the work of Christian higher education as unique and essential. What should set Christian colleges and universities apart is their distinct purpose of doing God's work in God's…...

2+ week, 22+ hour ago  (693+ words) In March the days are often still too short and the air is too cold, but when April comes, I'm cycling outside. Warm winds blow, the snow melts, the roads dry, and I can start riding in the flat farmlands…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (484+ words) The Revised Common Lectionary for today, the second Sunday of Easter, gives us the gospel story from John 20: 19-31, where an apostle gets a derogatory nickname. I'm referring, of course, to "Projecting John." Or did you think I meant somebody else?...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (458+ words) In 1968, humans had never seen their earth like this, as a whole, from a distance. So beautiful. So fragile. So oddly small against even a miniscule framing of space's vast expanse. We have been, over the course of human history,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (458+ words) While having neither the bandwidth of a Cappadocian Father, nor the passion of a Tertullian, I would at least like to offer an oblique response to Steve Mathonnet-Vander Well's engaging and provocative blog "Heresies I Have Loved: III." I was raised…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (66+ words) It hasn't always been this way. With all the carnage the United States is bringing to the Middle East, it seems as though death and destruction will be our national legacy. But that has not always been the case. There…...