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Brian Keepers

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The Question She Asked Me

By Brian Keepers “So what’s the story of the Sioux?” she asks me. The question comes whistling out of the blue, or so it seems,

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Beautiful Souls

By Brian Keepers Every once in a while, you come across a book that takes hold of you and stirs you up and you can’t

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Is It Far Away?

By Brian Keepers “You cannot heal what you do not first acknowledge.” – Richard Rohr The images that flash on the television screen are jarring.

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“You Are Here”

By Brian Keepers My family and I just made a move from southwest Michigan to northwest Iowa. Our house is currently littered with partially unpacked

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Belonging and Living Unto Christ

By Brian Keepers This summer I’ve been reading a gem of little book by Marilyn Chandler McEntrye titled Christ My Companion: Meditations on the Prayer

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Should We All Be Feminists?

By Brian Keepers This past Christmas my sister-in-law, an ordained minister in the RCA and a Ph.D. student at Wheaton, gave me a compelling little

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A Gospel for Restless Hearts

By Brian Keepers The stadium was packed. Over 50,000 people crowded into Soldier Field, the whole place vibrating and humming like a hornet’s nest, eagerly

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On Leaving Well

By Brian Keepers The “For Sale” sign in the yard threw me. It shouldn’t have. I knew it was coming. We’d spent the whole week

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Living by a Different Script

By Brian Keepers Last Wednesday I defended my dissertation for my Doctor of Ministry program at Western Seminary, and tonight I will robe up and

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