Historian Keith Sewell (my neighbour and colleague at Dordt University) once argued that the decline in church attendance, especially in England, began with the Billy Graham crusades, which emphasized a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. One could experience this outside the church, making church attendance unnecessary. Many contemporary Christian worship songs reflect this shift as…
I glanced at my clock and saw that it was ten minutes after two in the afternoon. I grabbed my coat and stepped outside to wait for the school bus. Within a few minutes, the bus pulled up, and the driver stepped out to prepare the wheelchair lift. As she worked, the school nurse stepped…
Sometimes the whirlwind of U.S.-related news carries interesting topics. One such is the “order of love” (ordo amoris in Latin) that hit the news in February. The controversy itself is not worth revisiting, but it prompted knowledgeable people to write on the subject of love, explaining where the idea of an “order of love” really…
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