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Debra Rienstra

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What Is Mature Hope?

One way or another, probably all of us are pondering the possibility of hope these days. Some days we “feel” hope, some days we “do”

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Barbeque on the Beach

Even if we build various systems and institutions to help us do that lamb-feeding work, every day is still, in essence, an exercise in coming

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Strong Men are Servants, Not Sadists

Domination and destruction are easy and cruel. Serving, building, creating: that takes humility, which is true strength. So how can we provide a counter-narrative in

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A Tender Turning Point

This is the commemorative hundredth-anniversary book for Alpine Avenue Christian Reformed Church, the church in which I grew up. The anniversary occurred in 1981 when

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Nothing-But-Virtue Soup

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” I believe I have reached the age where I start to

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Discourse Trauma

The news media reports on all this, of course, so our little brains are filled with the ugliest discourse-sludge. Here’s my point: the discourse itself

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