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James Bratt

King’s Mountaintop, Our Valley

I know I promised to finish up some reflections on Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvinism this week, but yesterday’s 50th-anniversary commemoration of Martin Luther King’s

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In the Toils of Edwards

Late summer means slogging through tasks you signed up for under fairer prospects and distant deadlines. For me that means writing an essay on the

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How Long? Not Long?

  My mind keeps circling back to Trayvon Martin—not to the person, admittedly, nor to the trial with its outrageous verdict. But to the Stand

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Telling History

On the road yet again this week, this time in St. Louis for a conference on early American history. On the way down we stopped

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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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Gatsby at Kennebunkport

Every decade probably gets The Great Gatsby it deserves. The 1920s found the novel to be less telling a revelation of itself than author F.

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Shades of Green

        As you outlanders might have noticed, the bloggers at this site who live in the upper Midwest have been musing out loud (it’s not

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Which Deaths Count?

I’ve been trying to figure out which deaths count and which don’t—not in the eyes of God, of course, but in those of the American

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