Michelle Van Loon

To read part one of this sorta series on corporate worship, click here. To read part two, click here. What do these two anecdotes have in common? Alice (not her real name) is a cast-iron, old-school prayer warrior. She knows…

Click here to read part one of this series.  The church was a massive cathedral, constructed on a prime plat of rich farmland over 100 years ago in order to provide a house of worship for the German farmers who’d…

It’s a perfect summer afternoon. You’ve settled into your box seat, twenty-two rows behind the visiting baseball team’s dugout. You flag down the hot dog guy and fork over your four bucks. He slaps a steaming red hot into a…

“Why isn’t this church like that conference?” A friend recently reported that her teen daughter asked her this question after attending a teaching and worship event that drew thousands of people from across the U.S.  The young woman had experienced…

A Saturday afternoon grab bag: If you like books and book reviews, you’ll want to bookmark the Englewood Review of Books website. Every Tuesday and Friday, a thoughtful variety of book reviews are posted, along with an occasional poem or…

“When they arrive at the gates of death, God welcomes those who love him.” – Ps. 116:15 MSG  I remember where I was* in 1982 when I heard the news that Keith Green died. Though I’d never met him in…