Author Archives: Bert Hielema

Year 9-4 Last week in the magnificent new Guthrie Theatre complex in downtown Minneapolis, on the shore of the Mississippi, I saw ”Shadowlands,” a play based on the life of C.S. Lewis, the well-known author of the Narnia Series, and, … Continue reading →

Year 9-3 “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That’s how Michael Pollan starts his book, “In Defense of Food.” He continues, “That’s more or less, the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we … Continue reading →

Year 9-2 We all have seen these tremendously long trains stacked with doubled up containers, most of them originating in China. That sort of transport may soon stop. It’s the money matter that may halt this. The growing financial crisis … Continue reading →

Year 9-1 “Christian Church lives by God’s word, even on homosexuality”. I challenge the accuracy of last week’s headline, because God’s Word is bigger than the Scriptures alone. For the last 23 years I have written in my almost undecipherable … Continue reading →