The first church I pastored, in inner-city Chicago, just moved its worship services online because the Mexican congregants fear Sunday morning ICE raids. Signs of tough times are all around. Two recent books don’t just counsel against despair, but suggest ways to move forward while deeply rooting ourselves in our faith. Towards resistance Hannah Reichel…
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…
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…
As I opened the book I’ve Got Questions by Erin Hicks Moon, I was hesitant about what I would find. Having it out with God comes with some fear and trepidation, not just because of who God is, but because of the culture we live in. However, within the first ten pages, it was as…
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…
Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven. (Matt. 5:17) We have just entered Epiphany, the season of Immanuel/Emmanuel (“I” in Hebrew, “E” in Greek). In Hebrew, im means “with;” nu means “us;” and el is the generic word for “God.” The word “Immanuel”…
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…
“Hello! My name is Elder Price, and I would like to share with you the most amazing book.” For those familiar with theatre, these words are instantly recognizable as a line from the Broadway hit The Book of Mormon, which graced Toronto’s stage in 2024. However, my actual encounter with a missionary from the Church…
“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…
Christians have differed in interpreting the cryptic reference to a thousand years in Revelation 20. On the surface, it seems to teach that God’s people will be raised from the dead to reign with a returned Christ for a thousand years, after which will come a brief rebellion and battle before the last judgement. Eschatological…
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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