It strikes me that church picnics and potlucks are much like the church itself. The CRC is one denomination, but within it there are many flavors of congregations.

The birds who have happily feasted on the surplus of bugs and abundance of space found in the North begin to think about making the long flight back to their wintering grounds.

I have changed my mind about rapture theology. Reformed theology does not support it.

My thankfulness revolves around small and big things.

I witnessed that spirit of censure and distrust during debates on the floor of synod.

The only crown of victory ever offered to the Christian is that of martyrdom. We were never called to win, only to testify.

We know that it’s wrong to physically harm people. But is it ever right to hurt people’s feelings for the sake of God’s truth? For instance, Jesus called the Pharisees a “brood of vipers.”

Our visits continued, and we were enfolded deeper into the lives of this couple.

We need to take these texts seriously as a way of taking the questioner seriously.

This belt was one way the early Iroquois people of eastern Canada preserved their way of governing and maintaining their laws.

At just about every church leadership event, the first question attendees ask of one another is “How big is your church?”

It was almost magical how it filled up again and again, week after week.

When I am not sure but have to make a choice, I choose to risk erring on the side of love and inclusion.

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My husband and I can’t agree on whether we should be cremated or not. Is there any biblical instruction for this?

When I was appointed as a delegate to synod the first week of March, and I was immediately asked about it, all I could say was, "I don't know."

Leaders in many Christian churches are embracing Enneagram personality typing. I would be very glad to have solidly Reformed feedback on this practice.

Sin is our daily addiction. When we come together in worship, it is a time of encouraging each other in sobriety from our sins.

 Jesus is effectively declaring in Luke 24:44 that the entire Old Testament is pointing to him.

The synodical advisory committee handling the overtures asked me to share my story.

That evening I was miserable. The eye was throbbing with pain as the anesthesia slowly wore off. I couldn’t sleep.

Riding the bus home from the swimming pool several years ago, I found myself in a communication conundrum.

“Show them no mercy.” Did God really command the genocide of the Canaanites?