Reformed Journal
Complicating Calling
Iran, the Middle East, and the Myth of Redemptive Violence
Trading the Letter of the Law for the Language of Mercy
A Blurry Line and a Clear Calling
Intense Attention and Stone Yard Devotional
Contemplating the Redactions in the Newly Released Epstein Files
“Contemplating the Redactions in the Newly Released Epstein Files” by Sara Kay Mooney
Jubilee from the Couch
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Middle School Girls’ Basketball
A Call, a “Random” Library Book, a New Creation
Spot on Psalms — Psalm 25: Which God Are You Worshiping?
Kicking around tribalism and diversity on the pitch
I Made a Mental Note that Night
Chipping Through the Ice
Why Does Jesus Weep?
The Courage to Keep Talking: How Dialogue Transforms Conflict into Community
Heresies I Have Loved: III
Donald Trump, Theologian
Ramshackle Life
Spot On Psalms
Smooching, Origins, Yellowstone, and More
A Compassionate and Gracious God
Campfires
The Hollowing Out of Church and Culture
Dust and Ashes. . . and soil
Once I Knew How to Ease Their Pain
Holding on to Hope, While Dancing with Death
A Letter to Christian Reformed and Reformed Communities
Popcorn, Pianos, and French Peas
What I’ve Learned from British Murder Mysteries
He Ain’t Heavy; He’s My Brother
Compassion and Conversation across the Great Divide
A Torrent Light and Mercy: Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
Emily’s Wuthering Valentine
“The Return of Appetite” by Andy Stager
The Return of Appetite
Schitt’s Creek, Heated Rivalry, and a Church Without Homophobia?
We Need A Lot More Wonder and Silence
Religious Trauma on the Young Calvinist Bus
Yes to Superstar but No to the NFL
Physical, Spiritual, Material: The Testament of Ann Lee
A Reckoning at the Bird Feeder
Civil (Dis)Obedience
We Need to Talk About the Kids
Exploring The Universe of the Soul, One Letter at a Time
Knitting as Resistance
On the Streets of Minneapolis
One Body, Many Lives: Fetal Microchimerism and Our Interconnectedness
Honey, what is Epee-fanny?
Numb, Dumb, or Something Else?
Permission Not to be Outraged Today
In the Words of Its Making
These Are Hands That Can Do Good
Howard Schaap’s Brooding Upon the Waters
“Doxology” by Ali Leon
Doxology
The Discomfort of Facing Injustice
The Bombing of Darmstadt, the Human Heart, and Hope Rising from the Ashes
Allen Levi and “Theo of Golden”
Not All Oncers Become Nonecers
Sacrificed for Souls: A Missionary Kid Confronts the Legacy of Missions
Called to a Friendship Across Continents
Hostility to Hospitality
Large Crowds Went Out to See
No One Is Coming to Save Us
Ministers, Not Messiahs
The view from the bottom of the U-Bend
Spiritual Humanity and Brute Force
How to Build Creation-Care Bridges With Conservative Christians
The Marvel and Demise of Evening Worship
Typing out my favorite poems
The Cartography of Loss
Writing Lists to Find New Life
Stacking It Up
Genesis Without Anachronism: Walton’s Case for a Contextual Reading of Genesis
Seeing it through no matter what
Joyful, Groovy, Visionary, Fearless: A Few Words on Mavis Staples
Resolute: Nadia, Protests, and Sovereignty Reconsidered
Checking the box or a through line in life?
Reimagining Your Identity : Jen Hatmaker’s Awake
All the President’s Vices
A Resolution in One Word
Science 2025: The bad news and the good news
“Preliminary” by Steven Searcy
Preliminary
Long-awaited Messiah and Hope of the Gentiles
Play: From Usefulness to Belovedness
Gratitude for Those Among Us
Amen: So Let it Be
To Make You Feel My Love
The “Gospel” of the Vengeful Christ
Happy New Year, 2026!
The Spiritual Practice of Reading
Exercising My Voice
The Best of the Reformed Journal, 2025
Our comings and our goings
How Reading Matthew—And a Professor’s Smirk—Changed My Life
Reordering the Ordinary
What has Orlando to do with Bethlehem?
Go On Being Filled with Wonder
The Love Which We Cradle
With Us
Waiting, and why it’s hard
In the days of Herod the king
1948: The Christmas I Grew Into a Man
Subtract from us everything that crowds out love
Hamnet: Quiet Grief, Sentimental Speculation
Little Pieces of Light
The Testimony of Mary
Alone: More Than a Weight-Loss Show
Rejoicing in Spite of Ourselves
Remorse Code
Finally, Succeeding at Advent
Our Attention Is All We Have
Pluribus and the Upside of Sin
What We Now Call Joy
Good Inside
Feudal and Futile: On Creeds and Confessions II
The Surprise of Light
All is Not Fair in Love and War
The Science and Soul of Restoring Health: A Review of Healing Purpose
I wonder what Jesus I need to come right now?
Todo Es Sanctus: Every Moment Holy
We Are Still Here, Inside the Longest Night
As if birth were not risky
Nicholas: Saint for this Season (and all the time)
Telling Lies in Brooklyn
A Flicker of Light
Cold and Clear
What I Learned from My High School Newspaper
Growing Up in the Crevice
Surprising Tales
Reconciliation Ecology: Reconsidering Restoration
Living in the Tension
Love Trickles Down Like Honey from God
Wicked–for Good?
I’m Not Courageous, I’m Free
Brooding Upon the Waters
Lighting Birthday Candles in Slow Motion
Creating Culture
Beavering Our Way, Reformed Style
Growing Up In the Crevice
Fourteen Years and Counting…
From a Cave to a Tunnel
A Beautiful Man: Catlin’s Osceola
Treasure: Pearls, Bugattis, and St. Ephrem of Syria
The Task of Forgiveness and Redemption
Dwell
“Dwell” by Hannah Notess
Family Heirlooms I Want to Keep
Slipping feet, slumbering and sleeping
“Candide” and the Car Wash
Can We Keep It Real?
Angels At Large
My Moment on the Camino
Dystopia
Through This Present Darkness
You Really Can
The Flash, 1962
Should I be Grateful Death Destroyed the Partisan Divide?
Meeting Big Brother at the ICE Office
Can These Bones Live?
Fall Religious Reality TV Round Up
On Creeds and Confessions I
It’s Not About the Fish
A Different Kind of Veteran
Standing Closer to Suffering: A review of Everything is Tuberculosis
Passing the Peace
A Prayer for Veterans Day
Sacred in the Small: Finding Wonder in Everyday Creation
A Father’s Library, a Professor’s Virtue, and Sanctification
The Joy of Dog
The Garden and the Empire: on gilded halls and golden toilets
Communion is Everything
A Monster for This Moment
The Fortune of Attention
What Knitting Teaches Me About Life
Joyful Companions for These Dark Times
What Calvin Gets Wrong
The Difference Between a Time and a Season
This road we’re on, it’s the wrong one
Worthy Competitor
Sorting Out My Headaches and Taking My Punches
Goodness and Mercy on the Camino
Talking Turkey and Avoiding Tragedy
The Life of a….Prodigal Sheep?
A life less difficult
Bearing Witness
How much do we have to love our neighbor?
This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
My Granddaughter and Me in a Swimming Pool
In Defense of Trick or Treating
Two Creatures, in Brief Encounter
The Amazing Healing Power of Tomatoes (and Liturgy)
Welcome to Gladstone, Wisconsin
When the Church Wounds
Oddities, Opinions, and Observations
Courage: Calvin on Church and State
“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong”
Wonder and World-Mending: The Relevance of Denise Levertov to Our Present Darkness
An American Thought Experiment
Semi-permanent residents in the land of the unexpected
Down the Church Website Rabbit Hole
Can AI Create Life?
And the walls came a tumblin’ down!
Rooted: Sustenance for Transformation
“Be Opened” by Deb Baker
Be opened
We have no king, but…
Playing with Matches while Sleeping
Learning How to Lament From Jesus
God of the Disposable
Worms. Love. Lies. Freedom.
Day One Rant
Wrestle with your First Draft Thoughts, but Keep Them Offline
Making America Inaccessible Again
They Saw a Game: Review of The Unbaised Self by Erin Devers
Putting the “Calvin” back in Calvinism
My Hand Over My Mouth
The Case for “Messed Up” Stories
Sinners: This is Who We Are
The Witness of the Witnesses
Don’t Hate Your Customer
Es ist genug
A Sustaining Vision: The Soulwork of Justice
In hope
“A Famine of Words” by Steven Peterson
A Famine of Words
A Letter to My Daughters: It’s a Dumpster Fire
Remembering My Great Teacher Calvin Seerveld
Your Leap of Change
Wizards, Prophets, or the Way of Jesus?
A Field Guide to Invasive Weeds at Church
First Love
The Righteous Path
But the Clouds Are Grieving
A Crisis of Imagination: Spiritual Formation and Development
Is Love Ever Wasted?
The Discouraging Effect of Military Misuse
Fact Checking the Reformed Journal
Unpacking The Puzzling Parable of the Unjust Steward
The Joyful Jesus of The Chosen
The “Dutch-American” Pulitzer
When What Divides Us is What Defines Us
What Happened to the Fish?
After Denise Levertov’s Essays
“After Denise Levertov’s Essays” by Caroline J. Simon
Will the Murder of Charlie Kirk Change Anything?
How Do You Know AI Didn’t Write This?
For Those Who Fret About It
There Are No Perfect Victims