Skip to main content
All Posts By

Debra Rienstra

college lifeliturgical year

Little Pagans

People organize their life stories around significant football games. They make holy pilgrimages. They engage in ritual grilling and boozing and cheering. They seek the high mystical ecstasies of winning the big game. They don sacred vestments and practice hatred toward the worshipers of rival…
mm
December 3, 2011
pop culture

Redemption Fantasies

A girl can’t spend every minute thinking deep thoughts and reading classic literature, so on occasion I flop on the couch and watch myself a little fantasy TV. I am not talking about cheesy Arthurian drama (though I groove on that) or science fiction (which…
mm
November 5, 2011
Worship Words

Worship Words Interview with CICW

This article was first published by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship on their website: https://www.calvin.edu/worship/stories/ Words are powerfully formative. Worship words shape how we understand God and worship together. In Worship Words: Discipling Language for Faithful Ministry Debra and Ron Rienstra show why and how to give…
mm
September 30, 2008
Great with Child

Interview with Publisher’s Weekly

By JANA RIESSPublished February 25, 2002 PW: In Great with Child: Reflections on Faith, Fullness, and Becoming a Mother, you chronicle your experiences during your third pregnancy. How did the book emerge from that pregnancy? DR: When we finally decided to try to have a third baby, I…
mm
February 25, 2002