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James Bratt

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1925

Let’s look back at 1925 to see the portents of the year but also its other possibilities, to compare what looked big at the time

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Fighting Over Grace

[An earlier version of this article appeared in the newsletter of Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed Church.] In 1924 Eastern Avenue Christian Reformed Church in Grand

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Using Kuyper

The last weeks of the Trump administration were hard on the reputation of Abraham Kuyper. Senator Josh Hawley, who promoted the “stolen election” fraud behind

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Moved by the Liturgy of Revival

I love high-church liturgy. Smells and bells, processions and litanies, choirs and acolytes – the more the merrier. It might be because of the sere

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Keeping Kuyper Current

James D. Bratt In 1985, Richard Mouw left his teaching post at Calvin College for Fuller Theological Seminary, where he has taught ever since and

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An Obsolete Political Faith

NOVEMBER 2012: AS WE SEE IT by James Bratt The most common theme running through postmortems of the presidential election has been demographic: the Republican

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The Coming of the Lord?

The Thanksgiving Day service was almost over. The singing had been inspiring, the sermon right on point, the prayers plain and heartfelt. Then the Congressman

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