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David A. Hoekema

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Open and Closed

Podcasters recycle others’ podcasts as often as preachers recycle others’ sermons, but sometimes they are more honest about it. Recently Roman Mars closed his 99

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Welcoming the Stranger

Russia’s senseless and unprovoked attack on Ukraine has altered geopolitical alignments and economic networks in ways we could not imagine a month ago. A united

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The Age of Autocracy? Maybe Not

“This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius!” exulted the cast of the 1967 musical Hair. And what lay ahead for the world?  “Harmony

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Of Drones and Depravity

“Up above my head,” we sing in the gospel song, “there’s music in the air! I know, I know, there must be a God somewhere.”

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Pestilence and Persuasion

When we face a seemingly intractable challenge, where do we turn?    To the Bible first of all, as faithful Christians, where we find not just

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The Peaches of Paradise

Apple, schmapple.  I’ll bet it was a peach.  The writer of Genesis tells us that God encouraged Adam and Eve to gather all the fruits and

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A House of Wings

“Elect from every nation, yet one o’er all the earth.” So runs a line from a hymn we sang in my church on Sunday (“The

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Talking With Flags

There has been a lively conversation going on up and down my street, in a townhouse development south of Tucson. But it isn’t the people

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