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I retired a few years ago, said goodbye to my last congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, moved to Holland, Michigan, and started a new life. I
Doug Brouwer
February 26, 2023
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I retired a few years ago, said goodbye to my last congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, moved to Holland, Michigan, and started a new life. I
I am an American who happens to have a Dutch last name. That’s one of the surprising things I’ve learned while living in The Hague
Nearly ten years ago, I traveled to South Africa with a dozen or so members of the church I was serving at the time. Several
When is the right time to leave a relationship, a job, or a church? I’ve thought about that question often over the years, and I’m
I never thought much about the life of a guest preacher until I became one. Once, twenty years or so ago, I invited a friend
Last week I wrote something about Pentecost for the Reformed Journal, my first-ever Sunday contribution, and I thought it was touching and clever. Just now
It’s Holy Saturday, the day before the Big Event, also known as Easter. I am with my younger daughter, who asks me over morning coffee
I baptized my older daughter, Sarah, when she was three months old. She was not my first baptism, though she was among my first. I
The last time I had lunch with my mother had been fifteen months ago—in other words, before the pandemic. A few months after the pandemic
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