My brother told me he was an atheist at the start of a car ride. He opened up the conversation as if he were coming clean. “I want to have faith,” he said. “I really do. But I have to be honest and say I don’t.” At first I was taken aback. I knew my brother wasn’t...
Do you know those “Bible in a year” reading plans? They map out daily readings, suggesting various parts of the Bible to read all in one day. A little Old Testament, a little Psalms, a little of the Gospels, a little New Testament. So after 365 days, you’ve read the...
“There is an enormous number of people, and I am one of them, whose native religion, for better or worse, is Christianity. We were born to it; we began to learn about it before we became conscious; it is, whatever we think of it, an intimate belonging of our being; it...
Here’s my takeaway from the 2024 Festival of Faith and Writing. The Calvin Center for Faith and Writing offers this biannual conference celebrating spiritual writing. Occurring in April at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, there is always a literary and...
Theology is full choices. Some of those choices are conscious, and some of them we make unawares, but we’re always choosing something. One of those choices is what we’re prioritizing in the grand narrative of scripture. Put another way: which lens will shape the faith...
During my semester abroad in Australia, I was lucky enough to take a spring break trip to Fiji. “Bula!” I stepped off the plane to the sounds of a steel drum and the caress of a tropical breeze. Greeters waited in the airport lobby with shell necklaces and sunny...
