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Doug Brouwer

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The Holy Bits

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

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Lunch with My Mother

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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Worship Words

I am delighted that this book came to be written; I worry that it will not be read as widely as it should be. As

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Can These Bones Live?

MAY 2007 by Douglas J. Brouwer Early on the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, the sixth-strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic, came

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Leaving Church

The first time I read Barbara Brown Taylor’s new memoir, Leaving Church, I was disturbed. The problem was not with the writing (she’s a gifted

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Who Will Take Our Place?

One of my colleagues retired this spring. It was a sad day both for me and for the congregation we served together. I saw more

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Welcome to Ann Arbor!

Last summer I moved from Wheaton, Illinois, to Ann Arbor, Michigan, from a city with no synagogues and a nearly invisible Jewish population to a

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