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Debra Rienstra

On Finding the Beautiful

Debra Rienstra has asked Abby Zwart to serve as a guest blogger today. Abby is a senior Secondary Education-English major at Calvin College. She is

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February Blahs

If for some reason you wish to study that peculiar state of human existence called “the blahs,” I suggest you begin in the third week

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Thin Places

Thanks to Jes for her thoughtful post earlier this week on cloudy places in Luke’s Transfiguration story. To further prepare for Sunday, here’s a meditation

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Doomed to be a Taker

And now, another episode in our continuing series: Logical Fallacies in Public Discourse. This week: false dichotomy. I really must apologize to the whole of

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House Blessing

My guess: 1971, when people placed family members in glaring sunlight to take a picture, resulting in a shadow of the photographer in the lower

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Stars of Wonder

I would like to be writing a review of the new movie The Hobbit, but I haven’t seen it yet. (My daughter went to a

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Slouching Toward Diligence Day

I’m just now turning my thoughts to the Thanksgiving Day menu. My parents and brothers and their families will be coming here, since the days

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