Reformed Journal
Feudal and Futile: On Creeds and Confessions II
The Surprise of Light
All is Not Fair in Love and War
The Science and Soul of Restoring Health: A Review of Healing Purpose
I wonder what Jesus I need to come right now?
Todo Es Sanctus: Every Moment Holy
We Are Still Here, Inside the Longest Night
As if birth were not risky
Nicholas: Saint for this Season (and all the time)
Telling Lies in Brooklyn
A Flicker of Light
Cold and Clear
What I Learned from My High School Newspaper
Growing Up in the Crevice
Surprising Tales
Reconciliation Ecology: Reconsidering Restoration
Living in the Tension
Love Trickles Down Like Honey from God
Wicked–for Good?
I’m Not Courageous, I’m Free
Brooding Upon the Waters
Lighting Birthday Candles in Slow Motion
Creating Culture
Beavering Our Way, Reformed Style
Growing Up In the Crevice
Fourteen Years and Counting…
From a Cave to a Tunnel
A Beautiful Man: Catlin’s Osceola
Treasure: Pearls, Bugattis, and St. Ephrem of Syria
The Task of Forgiveness and Redemption
Dwell
“Dwell” by Hannah Notess
Family Heirlooms I Want to Keep
Slipping feet, slumbering and sleeping
“Candide” and the Car Wash
Can We Keep It Real?
Angels At Large
My Moment on the Camino
Dystopia
Through This Present Darkness
You Really Can
The Flash, 1962
Should I be Grateful Death Destroyed the Partisan Divide?
Meeting Big Brother at the ICE Office
Can These Bones Live?
Fall Religious Reality TV Round Up
On Creeds and Confessions I
It’s Not About the Fish
A Different Kind of Veteran
Standing Closer to Suffering: A review of Everything is Tuberculosis
Passing the Peace
A Prayer for Veterans Day
Sacred in the Small: Finding Wonder in Everyday Creation
A Father’s Library, a Professor’s Virtue, and Sanctification
The Joy of Dog
The Garden and the Empire: on gilded halls and golden toilets
Communion is Everything
A Monster for This Moment
The Fortune of Attention
What Knitting Teaches Me About Life
Joyful Companions for These Dark Times
What Calvin Gets Wrong
The Difference Between a Time and a Season
This road we’re on, it’s the wrong one
Worthy Competitor
Sorting Out My Headaches and Taking My Punches
Goodness and Mercy on the Camino
Talking Turkey and Avoiding Tragedy
The Life of a….Prodigal Sheep?
A life less difficult
Bearing Witness
How much do we have to love our neighbor?
This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
My Granddaughter and Me in a Swimming Pool
In Defense of Trick or Treating
Two Creatures, in Brief Encounter
The Amazing Healing Power of Tomatoes (and Liturgy)
Welcome to Gladstone, Wisconsin
When the Church Wounds
Oddities, Opinions, and Observations
Courage: Calvin on Church and State
“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong”
Wonder and World-Mending: The Relevance of Denise Levertov to Our Present Darkness
An American Thought Experiment
Semi-permanent residents in the land of the unexpected
Down the Church Website Rabbit Hole
Can AI Create Life?
And the walls came a tumblin’ down!
Rooted: Sustenance for Transformation
“Be Opened” by Deb Baker
Be opened
We have no king, but…
Playing with Matches while Sleeping
Learning How to Lament From Jesus
God of the Disposable
Worms. Love. Lies. Freedom.
Day One Rant
Wrestle with your First Draft Thoughts, but Keep Them Offline
Making America Inaccessible Again
They Saw a Game: Review of The Unbaised Self by Erin Devers
Putting the “Calvin” back in Calvinism
My Hand Over My Mouth
The Case for “Messed Up” Stories
Sinners: This is Who We Are
The Witness of the Witnesses
Don’t Hate Your Customer
Es ist genug
A Sustaining Vision: The Soulwork of Justice
In hope
“A Famine of Words” by Steven Peterson
A Famine of Words
A Letter to My Daughters: It’s a Dumpster Fire
Remembering My Great Teacher Calvin Seerveld
Your Leap of Change
Wizards, Prophets, or the Way of Jesus?
A Field Guide to Invasive Weeds at Church
First Love
The Righteous Path
But the Clouds Are Grieving
A Crisis of Imagination: Spiritual Formation and Development
Is Love Ever Wasted?
The Discouraging Effect of Military Misuse
Fact Checking the Reformed Journal
Unpacking The Puzzling Parable of the Unjust Steward
The Joyful Jesus of The Chosen
The “Dutch-American” Pulitzer
When What Divides Us is What Defines Us
What Happened to the Fish?
After Denise Levertov’s Essays
“After Denise Levertov’s Essays” by Caroline J. Simon
Will the Murder of Charlie Kirk Change Anything?
How Do You Know AI Didn’t Write This?
For Those Who Fret About It
There Are No Perfect Victims