
Postcards from the Festival of Faith and Writing
An art gallery downtown. Makoto Fujimura reads from The Four Quartets, testifies to what T.S. Eliot has meant to him. Tells of reading the poem

An art gallery downtown. Makoto Fujimura reads from The Four Quartets, testifies to what T.S. Eliot has meant to him. Tells of reading the poem

My colleague Jennifer Holberg got a head start on me last November by recommending some authors who will be featured at the Calvin Festival of

I first found out about the new Broadway musical Hamilton during a car ride across Michigan last November. The family was packed in the minivan

Calvin College, where I teach, faced another brutal round of budget cuts this fall, and not surprisingly, the arts took a hard hit. I lament

Now that I’ve turned 50 (on August 7), I have begun to reflect tentatively on mortality and legacy and all those things that hit you

Congratulations on starting dance lessons! Dance students gain many benefits through becoming better dancers. In order to assist your specialist teacher in personalizing your foundation

Last night I sat on the steps of the United States Capitol and enjoyed my tax dollars at work in the form of the U.

As I read Rohr’s book together with The Talent Code, I’m pondering the possible connections. For example, I wonder about this idea of “deep practice.”

I report to you late on Friday night after two exhilarating days at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College. I’m exhausted and

Today, I would like to give some grateful public praise to people who put in a lot of none-but-the-angels labor: musicians.