I grew up with constant criticism from my parents. I don’t want to hurt my children like I was hurt, but I can’t seem to stop being critical. Help!

Lent and advent celebrations were totally absent in the first 30 years of my 75-year CRC experience. Now they abound. Why now and not then?

A coincidence? I’m thinking not. I’m going to guess an algorithm got yesterday’s story almost right, but not quite.

Being stuck at home these past months because of the pandemic, I’ve found myself falling into a slower pace.

I am in a period of huge transition in my life right now. How do I make sure I navigate my decisions and direction-setting well?

Governments in the U.S. and Canada are offering grants and financial support for businesses and charities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. How should churches respond?

Is there a model structure that complies with church order yet allows a smaller group to be responsible for the day-to-day running of the church?

In order to become “the personal Presence of Christ in the world by the Spirit,” there are indeed a number of shifts that need to happen in a congregation.

In the Bible, God gave Samson back his power, and Samson used that power to kill himself. Does this mean that sometimes it’s OK to commit suicide?

Whom should I marry? Which job should I take? Even though I pray, I don’t know.

In terms children can understand, how do you explain what it means to bless someone in the name of God?

While it’s overly simplistic to quickly quip, “You were created a human being, not a human doing,” it’s also imperative that somehow that message gets conveyed.

One of the underlying principles of Reformed polity is mutual accountability—that church members and leaders are accountable to each other

When it comes to technology, why do people assume older folks like me don’t get it?

When you take leftovers home, they’re almost always given in Styrofoam containers that can’t be recycled. What’s the most stewardly option?

Moral virtue is at once something that God produces in us and at the same time something we need to work at. Moral character, in other words, is a work in progress. 

My church no longer reads the Ten Commandments in worship. Isn’t hearing the Commandments an important part of our faith formation?

Is the opposite of fake news “authentic news?” Does that mean if people authentically believe something to be true, it is?

Discipleship is about learning to love, follow, obey, and become more and more like Jesus.

It’d be an overstatement to say it has changed my life, but it certainly has changed the focus of my life.

Can’t someone make commitments and keep promises to a church without being a member?

When we are broken and humbled, acts of kindness convey God’s care in ways that spark and refresh our sense of being called to serve God.

He tried to say at the end that creation, like salvation, is all about grace, but it seems to me that environmental sermons are a bit fluffy and sermons instead should be about the gospel of the saving grace of Jesus