This year marks the 150th anniversary of the death of one of the great figures in Dutch – and arguably Western – history. Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer was born in 1801 and was raised in a Netherlands undergoing significant change. When revolution broke out in France in 1789, it would unleash such instability as to…
We are an increasingly visual culture, so it is good to learn from a long Christian tradition of showing the faith through images. Eve Tibbs, Orthodox Christian and professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical bastion, addresses this challenge with her lovely book Seeing the Gospel: An Interpretive Guide to Orthodox Icons. Intriguingly, prestigious Calvinist…
The global legacy and influence of a Reformed scholar and educator will live on in Canada, with the opening of the H. Evan Runner Reading Room at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ontario, in his honour. And what will be available for visitors to read? The personal libraries and papers of his students: two equally influential…
Many years ago, the speaker at a women’s breakfast asked, “Does anyone know where the custom of spring cleaning began?” The words escaped my lips without a second thought, “With my mother-in-law!” The room exploded with laughter. Good thing Mom had a sense of humour. I wasn’t altogether joking, though. She was the one who…
Harry van Dyke’s book was triggered by a conference commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Kuyper’s 1898 Princeton Stone Lectures on Calvinism. Centenary speakers presented Kuyper as unprecedented. In The Legacy of Abraham Kuyper, Van Dyke considers key individuals who influenced Kuyper and as many leaders whom Kuyper influenced. Significant influencers The book’s first part discusses…
Jonathan Anderson is the Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts at Regent College in Vancouver. Anderson is trained as an artist, art critic and theologian. In his recent book, The Invisibility of Religion in Contemporary Art (2025), Anderson addresses a strange phenomenon: even though religion was present in modern art,…
In the back row of my university classroom, I could not stop crying. I was in my second year, studying philosophical logic and there I was, shedding tears and more tears. A month earlier, my only sibling Margaret had died of leukemia. She was 17 and I 20. The grief felt unremitting. I did not…
When Tony Campolo died late in 2024, he was almost 90 and one of the most recognizable names in contemporary evangelicalism. He was the son of immigrant working class Italians in Philadelphia, his family having converted from Roman Catholicism to fundamentalist Baptist. Campolo was a lifelong American Baptist and a lifelong Democrat (eventually a spiritual…
Since its start, the Church has been changed by new technologies – from the printing press to cars. But the rate at which those changes are coming has quickened from centuries to decades to days. Previous generations had years to understand new technology. Now, AI tools to help pastors are coming out almost weekly, and…
Several years ago, my father gave me a copy of our family tree going back seven generations. It was quite grounding to see where I came from and how I fit in. Interestingly, our family genealogist (a distant relative in the Netherlands) chose to include two important pieces of information alongside many of the names…
“You cannot be neutral about this!” That was what a senior denominational leader in the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) told me last Spring, during a dispute over an editorial. I was the editor in chief of the CRC’s magazine, The Banner, until July 2025 when I resigned in protest. In that disputed editorial, I wrote…
“I’m not sure I believe that God, like, talks to people or gets involved in day-to-day things,” a friend of mine said recently. “That just doesn’t make any sense to me.” I should mention that he’s a pastor, and his comment got me thinking about secularism and its impact on Christianity. In his book A…
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