How lucky I am to embark on the college experience from behind prison walls, and blessed that it comes from a Christian perspective.
I grew up in the church, and was baptized when I was six years old...
When evidence of the Word of God spanning generational gaps manifests, we should be reminded that it also circumvents cultural movements and institutional policy. Religion reporter Joe Toly was rightly...
Have you ever been so overcome by sin, that your sin seems so deplorable that Jesus’ blood can’t cover it? That was me, until the Calvin Prison Initiative changed my life. Calvin University has become...
When Donald Trump talks about heaven, it’s hard not to wince.
In a recent conversation with reporters, the President said, “You know, there’s no reason to be good. I want to be good so you can...
Society lied to me, and I believed it. They said I was the least of us. I bought into the narratives of those who did not look like me. In fact, I took to heart many of the things these people had written...
There has been a word floating around a lot lately, and it is one which has come to be known as a characteristic of strength, consistency and value: integrity. This word has been used to describe someone...
I once heard a story about a prisoner of war (POW) having to clean his captor’s toilet (it was more like an outhouse than a toilet). The prisoner was in a foreign country and had been a prisoner for...
It is 6:48 a.m., on Sept. 17, 2025, and I am sitting at a desk looking through barred windows with a now warm cup of coffee to my right. The morning’s glory has not yet awakened the day, but my Spirit...
In August of 2021, my Grandpa Bruce’s wife found him dead on the side of the road after he didn’t return from a routine dogwalk; I didn’t get to say goodbye. Nearly four years later, my Grandpa Don...
Psalm 34:4-5 (NIV) “I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.”
As summer ends, I cannot...
I want to start this article by stating that I am not a coffee person. I don’t like the taste, and one of my goals coming into college was to avoid the caffeine addiction that is seemingly ever-present...
One thing we are taught in “Historical Research Methods and Logical Argumentation” is the weakness of arguments from silence. For this reason, this reflection is definitely not an argument....
