In the spring semester of the 2025-26 school year, I lived in Washington, D.C., which is a city that understands something crucial: memory needs visual representation. Walk ten minutes in any direction...

Reformed Christian writers have long reflected on what it means to hold office in institutions, including government institutions, beginning with John Calvin and his writing on magistrates. Officeholders...

On a random Sunday night in March, in an act of spontaneous boredom, I decided to go see Project Hail Mary without knowing much about it at all. I went in expecting to be entertained for a few hours, leave,...

In ML 326, Restorative Justice and Communities of Reconciliation, Dr. Cioffi asked my cohort to imagine that genuinely ethical Marxists achieved absolute political power. I replied that those ethical Marxists...

The Bible almost always describes romantic love from a male perspective. What I mean by this statement is that we read things like Isaac loved Rebecca (Genesis 24:67), Jacob loved Rachel (Genesis 29:18),...

Rarely a day goes by where I do not remember watching President Greg Elzinga himself say, out loud, to a crowd of various student leaders and a Dutch princess, that he used Gemini’s Copilot to generate...

We are currently marked by division amidst ongoing debates about the future of the Calvin community. Program cuts, restructuring of academics and student life and recent Synod decisions delivered from...

What do you think of when you think of a flourishing community? The first ingredient I think of is loving thy neighbor as thyself. I think of a thriving community surviving on a cultural diet of love and...

I recently had the privilege of meeting a brilliant Christian scholar I deeply admire, but when I shook this amazing man’s hand, I found myself telling him that I sometimes feel hurt when I read his...

James K. A. Smith’s March 23 article’s discussion of foundational matters regarding what “politics” is and how Christians might consider involvement in politics contains much wisdom, especially...

In September 2025, I bought a ticket to hear Doug Talamy speak about bugs, birds and native plants at Sherman St. Church. He talked for two hours, while simultaneously showing the audience glorious photographs...

I use Claude every day of my life. I use it to learn about programming. I use it to get help with cooking. I’d be lying if I claimed never to have asked it for life advice. AI is magical. On the surface,...