Forty years ago, a ragtag group of men and women moved to East Lansing to launch what has become Riverview Church. Over those years, we moved around the campus of Michigan State University like a bunch of nomads until we finally settled in our first permanent location...
As I have written before, 2016 was the year I began to realize all that I don’t know about race in America. With Martin Luther King, Jr Day coming up, there is no more appropriate time to get together to pray about racial reconciliation. A couple months ago, a...
To be honest, it feels a tad self-promoty to make a big deal out of this, but I am super excited about the book and I want tons of people to read it so I’m going for it anyway. The reason I wrote this book was because I really want people to experience the...
I’m a data junkie. I am always looking at all kinds of crazy reports at Riv and I try to figure out the trends behind the numbers. This year, I decided to look over the numbers from my online world and the trends are–to put it mildly–obvious....
I have noticed an interesting phenomenon the past couple weeks. A lot of people I talk with seem to be dreading conversations they are inevitably going to have with their families over Christmas. Some people seem to be worried about how to handle Uncle Ted’s...
2016 will, for me, stick in my memory as the year I finally began to realize how much I (as a white dude) don’t know about race issues in our country. Because my parents were born and raised in the civil rights era in Detroit (and played Motown incessantly when...
