A Tender Turning Point
This is the commemorative hundredth-anniversary book for Alpine Avenue Christian Reformed Church, the church in which I grew up. The anniversary occurred in 1981 when
This is the commemorative hundredth-anniversary book for Alpine Avenue Christian Reformed Church, the church in which I grew up. The anniversary occurred in 1981 when
Strange how quickly people’s lives fade into oblivion. These people lived their lives, then died. And their stories? What happens to their stories? Maybe a
Distant from my parents’ and their parents’ worlds, scrambling to understand my children’s world, I feel a kind of chronological loneliness. That’s the term I
We’re not talking about a language, or a dialect, or even current slang, but rather those little ways of speaking that are idiosyncratic to a
I’ll be processing this experience for a long time, but for now I’ll share just a few key words that focused my thoughts during and
It never occurred to him to see me, exhausted and falling to pieces, alone in that room with my mother as she labored on threshold
Best-selling memoirs tend to tell big, dramatic stories—getting sober, the messy divorce, the cancer diagnosis, the series of lovers, living through war, recovering from abuse,
I did not realize that carpet replacement would be a spiritual experience, but it turned out to be a massive exercise in crap management.
So now my four tomato plants are producing like mad, and I’m faced with the problem of what to do with all these tomatoes.
For UK Christian leaders, the challenges are fraught and puzzling: how to steward property, how to do church in a changing cultural context. The heavy