Day: January 1, 2014

Next Year’s Words

At one point in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, the speaker has a rather Dantean meeting with one of his long-dead teachers.  Of course, he is

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Shuffling the Team

Dawn Boelkins I’ve never understood the point of Fantasy Football. Why go to the trouble of investigating all the professional football teams, disassembling them, and

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Whose Kuyper? Which Inheritance?

James K.A. Smith In certain sectors of North American Protestantism — sectors, I would say, that seem to have disproportional influence on public discussions —

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Pilgrims Together

Scott Hoezee Because I recently traveled to Africa for the first time, I am keenly aware that when going to a place that is completely

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Boasting: It is Included

Matthew S. Vos I’m an accomplished loser. I really am. I don’t offer this bit of self-deprecation to vaunt my humility right before revealing a

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Where the Tree Falls

James Calvin Schaap Our friend Lawrence told us he thought it might be good for our souls and there would be a death, a deliverance

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Numbering Our Days

Daniel Meeter The lifespan of a dog is about 4,400 days. A mouse gets six hundred. Human beings get 25,560 days, or by reason of

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Counter Narrative

by Rose Postma In the seven days it took Utnapishtim’s hired craftsmen to build his reed-stitched boat, Noah must have wandered over late at night

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