In my work as a business professor over the past four years, I have been researching what happens to our brains when watching online lectures. I have been researching what happens to our brains when...
Synod 1968 established Sunday, July 14, as a day of prayer for racial reconciliation. This year, July 14 once again falls on a Sunday. We call on members of the Christian Reformed Church to dedicate...
The divisions in North American politics are sharp and create upheaval over what exactly it means to be Christian. There is racial unrest so deep, it threatens to undo the ministry of reconciliation...
When I started attending a Christian Reformed church in 1973, my only interest in the church was it had a basketball court inside the building. Over time, I found the pastors were gracious and kind...
There is a man I know. More than a man – a friend and a prophet. He is Indigenous, tall, with small piercing eyes that bore into you with gentle kindness. He is a stranger longing for a heavenly...
Six months ago, I was rushing to bring materials to a church presentation. On my way there, I was pulled over. When the officer asked if I knew how fast I was going, I honestly said I did not know. He...
Christ is risen from the dead, and creation celebrates! Have you ever thought about what Easter means for the created world? Have you ever thought about why it matters that Christ’s resurrected body...
This is the first post of our Power Over/Power With series, a collaboration between Safe Church Ministry and Do Justice. We all have some power. Power to act, to choose, to alter our world and affect...
Emmanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent...
On August 16, 1967, Martin Luther King was interested in the soul of America. At the eleventh Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention in Atlanta, he observed the domestic terrorism in the...
The challenges people face became real to me as a child through my parents’ work—my Dad worked as a foundry manager and my Mom as an advocate for at-risk families at the public school. At an early age...
It’s been quite the year! Thanks for reading and learning along with us, as we wrestled with faith and justice with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other (Karl Barth). Here are the top...
