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The Uncharted Territory of Retirement
My friend Mary and I have known each other since college days and over the last few years have done lots of talking about retirement. I wrote about one retirement conversation we had in the first chapter of my memoir, Chasing After Wind. La...
An Eerdmans Elegy
The Summer of Footnotes and Softball
The summer before my senior year of college I worked for the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, located at 255 Jefferson Avenue, in downtown Grand Rapids. I got to work by pedaling my bike from the...
Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry, and the Friend Who Knew
Wendell Berry died yesterday at 92. The tributes will come from everywhere, and they will be well deserved. I want to add just one small, personal note.
In the early 1990s, a friend gave me Jayber Crow. I can't find my original copy, which...
What We Mean When We Fly the Flag
A Small Ceremony
In fourth grade, my classmates and I shared flag duty. Every morning before the bell, a team of two would raise the flag on the pole outside our school, and every afternoon, before we went home, another team lowered it...
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...
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A Presbyterian pastor for 46 years — most recently in Zürich, Switzerland — and the author of several nonfiction books, including The Traveler's Path (2026 Wilbur Award of Excellence) and the memoir Chasing After Wind.
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