“You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.” Corrie ten Boom Hilary drenches Southern California with record-breaking rainfall as storm wreaks havoc The...
On the beach in Pacific Grove, CA, eight middle and high school students bend over the wet sand, digging as the wave water recedes to catch sand crabs. Blue Theology fellow Gabrielle Poli leads the...
Since 2002, I have been intimately involved with Spirit and Truth Fellowship, a CRCNA church in the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Hunting Park. Our late Pastor, Dr Manuel Ortiz, was a professor...
“God’s love is like an ocean. You can see its beginning, but not its end.” Rick Warren Thank you to everyone who contacted us last week about Do Justice prayers. We experienced technical difficulty...
“People are going to start dying soon.” Vardan Tadevosyan’s face on my computer screen is filled with worry, as he speaks to me from his office in Nagorno Karabakh. For the past eight months, he and...
“Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.” - Robert Murray McCheyne Thank you to everyone who contacted us this week...
A question for you: Do you value having the right opinion over doing right by your neighbours? Or, to use the language of the ancient Hebrew prophets, do you value being right over being righteous –...
It’s eviction day, and the neighbours are celebrating. For months, a derelict house at the end of our block has been rented by a struggling group of people for whom one glance reveals lives...
On Monday, July 24, 2023, a retired Christian Reformed pastor was charged in a murder case. Rev. David G. Zandstra (now 83) was the pastor at Trinity Chapel CRC in Broomall, Pa., in 1975 when 8-year...
“If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing...
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In...
In a world where xenophobia is intensifying, God calls us to practice philoxenia, love toward strangers, which in Greek means hospitality. The hospitality that we are talking about is a hospitality...
