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…
I generally dislike allegory. I’m in good company. J.R.R. Tolkien once said, “I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.” I never could connect with Pilgrim’s Progress. Nevertheless, I have no problem with the allegorical elements of Godhanger by…
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…
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…
It can be difficult to define beauty. In his new book, Wesley Vander Lugt understands beauty to be traces of divine glory in the natural world and in human culture. He aims to show readers why beauty’s impact is necessary to a vibrant faith and hope. Vander Lugt, a teacher of theology and a director…
Josué Reichow is a bright scholar from Brazil who is opening Dooyeweerd in new ways for a new culture. I first came across Reichow through his talk on a Christian response to Critical Theory, in which he offered a generous and clear-eyed way Christians could ally with the postmodern project of deconstruction and decolonization but…
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