“I serve a congregation in an all-white town. The nearest city is an hour’s drive away,” he said. “How do I get my people to actually feel for people of other races?”

Over the past several months our society has experienced a monumental shift in the treatment of women—particularly in regard to how they are treated by men in power.

I am frequently invited to sign a declaration on some topic of public concern.

There isn’t really any way to prepare one’s heart for a horrific tragedy.

Back in the South African apartheid era, I helped organize anti-apartheid efforts in our local community in Michigan.

A friend recently asked me, “Is Reformed theology for black people?”

In the recent high-profile cases of film studio executive Harvey Weinstein and other men in high-profile positions,

The tone of my own encounters with North Koreans was quite different when I visited there six years ago.

Last weekend, as I watched the terrible scenes from Charlottesville, Va., my heart was deeply troubled,

Over the weekend of August 11-12 in Charlottesville, Va., violence broke out at a rally protesting the removal of a statue

As a preacher, I felt a bit awkward walking into Calgary’s Victoria Park CrossFit gym that morning.

Back in my roaring twenties, I used to volunteer with something called the Committee for Contact with the Government (CCG).

During a rally for Facebook users last month, Mark Zuckerberg laid out his dreams for the future of his social media behemoth.

If I had to write a newspaper headline for Synod 2017 it would read “Tectonic fault lines in culture tear at Western Civilization.

Once a year in the Netherlands, joggers in the park stop running for two minutes.

Here is a poem that I learned at an evangelical “Bible camp”

David Hoekema and I served on the same synodical committee on War and Peace.

I got to thinking about the profound meaning of mission.

a student asked me whether I am in favor of “big government or small government.”

Growing up in evangelicalism, I often heard preachers talk about “the time of God’s patience.”