Day: August 1, 2011

Life, and Death: a memoir

The house where we lived at that time is long gone, as is the tiny kitchen where I stood, phone in hand, listening. The call

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Be All That You Can Be

We want our kids to be all that they can be. We read descriptions of “tiger moms,” dictating their child’s every move to gain maximum

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Better Together

Could a deep affinity for words hinder our appreciation of film? It is tempting to privilege text over images. But Calvin College English professor Roy

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Journeys Spiritual and Global

As Wesley Granberg-Michaelson concludes his seventeen-year tenure as general secretary of the Reformed Church in America, he has given to his friends around the world

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Clean! Clean!

The Great Commission in Matthew 28 has one imperative verb and three supporting participles. The main verb is not “go,” though it looks like it

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Dynamic Confession

The acceptance of the Belhar Confession by the Reformed Church in America, and its consideration by the Christian Reformed Church and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),

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Robinson Responds to Hesselink

Dear John, Trepidation isn’t called for. I think what may be most unconventional about my writing on Calvin is that I am often writing for

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Pushing Ourselves Forward

Compared to the beloved Heidelberg Catechism, feted in these pages and still recited on death beds, the Belgic Confession is a rather unremarkable Reformed document.

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