“Vanity” means pride and arrogance, bedroom furniture or the lyrics: “You’re so vain. You probably think this song is about you.” Ecclesiastes sings this song, too, except it sings it about us: “Vanity, vanity, everything is vanity.” At least, that was the old translation. The NIV changed the translation to “meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless.”…
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…
I’m a bit of a newshound at the best of times (and by “best” I mean “most politically boring”), but now – largely thanks to the black hole of political chaos down south – I’ve been struggling to think about anything else for the past month and a half. I suspect a lot of you…
On February 2, the U.S. President made unfounded allegations that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has “been run by a bunch of radical lunatics,” followed by Elon Musk stating falsely on his social platform ‘X’ that “USAID is a criminal organization.” These statements followed a January 20 Executive Order to pause all…
Christian Reformed Church of North America (CRCNA) members from 116 congregations (representing 17 percent of the denomination and roughly 32,000 people) met in Grand Rapids, Michigan for a Convening of Concerned Congregations in August. Why were they concerned? It’s complicated. Nate DeJong-McCarron, the director of a group called Better Together, said the event was organized…
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