Nurturing the Spiritual Life of Older Adults
I’ve been writing about faith at midlife since…well, since I hit that life stage more than a decade ago. I discovered that when…
Read MoreAuthor: Michelle Van Loon
Faith Conversations Recipe: “Skyline” Chili
I’m a guest on this week’s Faith Conversations podcast. Host (and conversationalist extraordinaire) Anita Lustrea and I talked about a bit about Born…
Read More
Review: Venus & Virtue
We in the church are being discipled by our culture in the area of sexuality, whether we believe it to be true or…
Read More
Born To Wander
Born To Wander: Recovering the Value of our Pilgrim Identity (Moody Publishers, 2018) Why are we so restless? All of us have a…
Read More
Newsletter, March 2018
Shalom, friend!J.R.R. Tolkien said, “Not all who wander are lost”. I’d go one step further and say Jesus’ call to follow him is…
Read More
Lifeway’s Survey About Jewish Evangelism
At the recent National Religious Broadcasters convention, Lifeway Research released a survey exploring the current state of Evangelical attitudes regarding Jewish evangelism. This is…
Read More
Esther Speaks
Who doesn’t love the story of brave Esther, the young Jewish woman who worked in concert with her insightful uncle Mordecai to save…
Read More
Christian Conference Vs. The Local Church
“They’re back from another conference,” one of my former pastors said in a staff meeting, shaking his head in mock exhaustion. He didn’t…
Read More
Hebrew Roots 101: Lois Tverberg’s “Rabbi Jesus” Books
As a Messianic Jew, I’ve been heartened by the interest I’ve seen among some lay people to connect with the Jewish foundations of…
Read More