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Roosevelt Park Rising: A Review
Roosevelt Park Rising: A memoir of the renewal of a pastor, a church, and a neighborhood, Reginald Smith, Reformed Journal Books, 2026, 144 pages
I read the chapter about Andy Angelo last Wednesday afternoon, and I had to put the bo...
Who Really Decides What You Read?
Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction, Laura B. McGrath, Princeton University Press, 2026, 296 pages
Anyone who has spent time trying to get a novel published — as it turns out, there is a surprisingly large...
Odysseus and Me
The Wrong Sacrifice
The New York Times ran an opinion piece on Monday arguing that too much has already been written about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey.
“If I see or hear one more word about Christopher Nolan’s new version of ‘The Ody...
What My Cataracts Taught Me About the Price of Seeing Clearly
I have, at last count, two brothers-in-law and two nephews who are physicians, plus a daughter with a PhD in health economics. So, when I tell you this piece is not an attack on doctors, I mean it. I look forward to Thanksgiving dinner with...
The Night on the Mountain
Over a year ago, First Presbyterian Church in Holland, Michigan, hosted the launch party for my most recent book, The Traveler’s Path. Forty or fifty people — friends, family, and church members — were gathered in the church's M&M Café. Whe...
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A Presbyterian pastor for 45 years — most recently in Zürich, Switzerland — I am the author of seven nonfiction books, including The Traveler's Path (2026 Wilbur Award of Excellence) and the memoir Chasing After Wind.
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