People are a little shocked when we tell them that we are “Missionaries” who don’t start any programs. As servants of Christ we come beside individuals and see what their dreams are for their...

Christopher Columbus, so brave and true, sailed the mighty ocean blue, in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, and found a land so bright and new! Or so the hagiography goes. Brian Walsh and Rick...

We are dab-hands at fishing: why should we incline To net people instead? {Matt 4:18ff ‘There’s a catch to convince you that I am divine.’ We’re five thousand famished; you tell us to dine On two...

Like a significant number of people in the CRCNA, I spent time serving with Resonate Global Mission (then Christian Reformed World Missions) in Nigeria. My husband Gil and I left as seminary interns...

Throughout history people have gathered together to create. From Moses recruiting Bezalel, Oholiab and other gifted craftspeople to furnish the Tabernacle in Exodus 36, to Paul and the other tent...

Blessed am I when I am starving for justice. When the world around me feels so unfair that I could scream, but no one seems to be listening. No one seems to care. May justice flow like a river. - Kate...

In the days following Easter Jesus’ disciples gathered on a hill above the Sea of Galilee. Much of their ministry with Jesus had occurred in these hills, but this encounter was like no other. This...

By now you’ve probably seen the meme about Jesus’ greatest miracle—that he had 12 best friends in his 30s– apparently first told by John Mulaney on SNL. The memes that make their rounds do so because...

The waters cleanse us with his gentle touch. And here he shows the full extent of love To us whose love is always incomplete, Though we betray him, though it is the night, He meets us here and loves...

Canada marks a National Day of Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th. It coincides with Orange Shirt Day, a grassroots commemoration marked by the wearing of Orange Shirts for children forced to...

I have the privilege of listening to a lot of pastors and worship leaders. I hear their joys and we give thanks. I hear what breaks their heart and mine breaks too. This reflective narrative comes...

I had a friend in my twenties that had a knack for getting himself arrested. As a rule-follower, child of immigrants and an immigrant, getting arrested is something I try to avoid. The only run-ins I...