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Debra Rienstra

Matthew 2.0

Thanks to my colleagues, this blog has been hitting its stride in the last two weeks (IMHO), day after day taking on challenging, serious topics

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The Resurrection of the Mind

During worship services this Easter season when we say the Apostle’s Creed together, I naturally attend especially to the words focusing on the Easter event.

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Knowing Stuff

APRIL 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Debra Rienstra I admit there’s something romantic about woodstoves and typewriters and horse-drawn carriages and other technologies of

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None But the Angels

You know those times when you do an extra good job on something, even when you understand that no one will appreciate or even notice

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I’m Giving Up Boorishness for Lent

A couple weeks ago, fellow Twelver Jeff Munroe confessed his fondness for Downton Abbey, the gorgeous, Brit-made, upstairs-downstairs soap opera that American viewers have swooned

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Retreat

Last week my mother spent a night in the hospital because of atrial fibrillation.  Her heart gets out of rhythm, and it needs to be

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