After placing our order, I turned and found myself face-to-face with a small woman carrying a listless child.

To discern what is true and right requires knowing God, not just knowing about God.

It began with nothing in particular. A man settled into his favorite chair one evening, tired from a long day, and reached for his phone the way he always did.

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As an Indigenous man, I received my traditional name later in life, because of the disconnect from my own people due to being part of the “Sixties Scoop” generation

Apparently, in back-to-back Sunday sermons, I had left the authors of those two emails with the exact opposite impression.

What happens when fixed eyes are transformed (“fixed”) by Jesus so everything comes into focus?

My church was one of the Christian Reformed churches that stopped offering a formal catechism class for young people. It’s been at least 25 years.

Members of the same churches are judging each other’s characters based on their disagreements. Sometimes they refuse to talk to one another while singing songs of unity.

As a denomination, we’re on the slope of a decades-long demographic decline. But we must not lose sight of who is in our corner.

I believe evangelism is one of the most important areas we need to grow as we think about God’s desired future for our denomination and for our local churches.

I don’t love God more because I earned a degree, but I do know God better through disciplined, sustained study of Scripture.

Why do so many capable members take a pass when they are invited to let their names stand to serve? And more importantly, what can we do about it?

He remembered exactly who he had been—and exactly what it cost.

In the actual journey of faith, even the most devout believers will experience confusion and struggle.

Liturgy was not a barrier to hospitality. Rather, it was an embodiment of it.

She reminded him of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet.

John could have emphasized glory or transcendence. Instead, he shows us Jesus is present through embodied actions

As a product of the south suburbs of Chicago, for the better part of the past four decades I’ve been a Chicago Bears fan.

While much of the confession covers the basics of the faith, there are a number of places where the distinct ‘accent’ of Reformed thought comes through.

We’ve drifted from attending church and listening to our local pastor to following pseudo-celebrity speakers on social media platforms.

The Sacred Assembly still calls the church to embody justice, to walk alongside Indigenous communities, and uphold the dignity and life of all people.

Artificial intelligence is pervasive in our daily lives, in ways that we are not even aware of.