Andrea Dieleman

Co-written by two Dordt grads, "Deep Reading" was awarded a prestigious prize named for one of Dordt's earliest graduates.

“It’s rare to stop and think about how God uses pain or temptation to form us. Sharing those stories with others was powerful—there’s much wisdom to be found in community.”

“Investigation always interested me because I like problem-solving. It was like trying to put a puzzle together and all the clues were pieces. Once we had all the pieces, we could begin to tell the story of what really happened,” Craig Kootstra says.

In the fall of 2024, the Theology Department decided to read through Calvin’s Institutes together. “It’s the sort of thing theology people like to do," Bailey says. “And we thought, why don’t we open it up and see if any others would like to read with us?”

“The goal,” says Hollinger, “is to stir up intelligent conversations about big economic issues.”