This page will feature lighter and shorter pieces on a variety of topics
THE ROAD TAKEN
THE ROAD TAKEN This reflection began as a conversation with an old friend. As our conversations do, we wandered here and there and eventually into Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken,” the poem that begins famously: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I…
TRAJECTORIES
WHERE IS ALL THIS GOING? In a recent and fascinating Substack post on white flight in Grand Rapids in the 1960s and 70s, Kent Hendricks (my nephew) groups the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) of the time into three “minds.” He calls these three “pietist,” “confessionalist,” and “transformationalist.” In this, Hendricks follows a 1974 Reformed Journal article in which Nicholas Wolterstorff…
FACE TO FACE
A SUNDAY MEDITATION Sometimes in a day things seem to add up, to make a point. Of course, many days are not like this. They seem to go first this way and then that, randomly. But occasionally what comes one’s way in a day seems, well, directional. For me, this past Sunday was a such…