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Debra Rienstra

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Engage Your Core

For the past several summers, I’ve taken a yoga class with a number of my colleagues at Calvin. For the first few summers, we met

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Pious Petunia Celebrates Summer

It’s time once again for guest blogger and advice columnist Pious Petunia to provide savvy answers to the pressing dilemmas readers present in their letters.

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Making the Case for Church

Someone had to come out and say it eventually, and Lillian Daniel was the brave one. Her blog post “Spiritual But Not Religious: Please Stop

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Quintessence of Dust

Last night, thanks to the cleverness and curiosity of internet geeks, my husband and I were able to listen for about three hours to Boston

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The Problem with Palms

Let’s admit it: Palm Sunday is a problem. I know I shouldn’t be questioning a moment in the church calendar that goes all the way

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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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