Hans Boersma

God wants us to become more truly like Anna, so he can give us the gift of the consolation of Israel.  Continue Reading »

Where does one turn when the devil’s mouth gapes open, and evil is ready to claim us for its own? Continue Reading »

Remember Jesus’s suffering for us, for it is when we remember God, that God remembers us. Continue Reading »

The fasting of Lent reminds us to focus on Jesus who will feed his people if they are willing.  Continue Reading »

God's mysteries cannot be solved; they are meant to be lived instead. Continue Reading »

Jesus who has come to restore all things will give sabbath restoration to our withered lives. Continue Reading »

The darkness of our lives awakens deep within us the longing for God’s coming in the flesh.  Continue Reading »

Jesus’s burden is different in kind from those of the scribes and Pharisees. With Jesus, the one giving us the yoke is himself the yoke. Continue Reading »

Pure hospitality applied to the Eucharist implies a universalism of the worst sort: It is the radical insistence that the church is without any positive identity whatever. Continue Reading »

We applaud our Anglican bishops’ willingness to reject neocolonial demands to accept the hegemony of the sexual revolution. But we are concerned that in an admirable attempt to resist the liberal project, they unwittingly have themselves opened the door to the use of Scripture for liberal ends.  Continue Reading »