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David Hoekema

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Did Manna Have a Spiky Shell?

At twilight today a legion of costumed children will pester their neighbors for gifts of candy and sweets. “Halloween” carries distant echoes of All Saints’

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Don’t Forget to Tell the Bees

News of the death of Queen Elizabeth on September 8 swiftly encircled the globe. We knew already that her health was declining – that she

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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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