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Jeff Japinga

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Gratitude for Those Among Us

The Minnesota immigrant communities are making contributions that make our neighborhoods and our nation a better place. You could really benefit from meeting these Ethiopian

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You Really Can

Ayers draws upon a vast knowledge of other great Christian thinkers; on art and music and literature, and what I can only imagine are a

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A Prayer for Veterans Day

We pray for a time when peace will reign and swords become plowshares once more, that war be known only in history books.

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There Comes From God a Courage

All I kept seeing was the picture of the mom in Minneapolis running barefoot toward her child’s school — shoes in hand, no doubt fear

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Was it all Worth It?

He held my response quizzically, as if examining an object entirely new and foreign to him. “You don’t know,” he repeated, “the impact of your

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And Then This Happened

You’ve been exceeding gracious in reading (tolerating?) my reflections on what it means to do church, and be church, in an age when the usual

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How Do I Know?

It was a mixed shopping bag this week for Brian Cornell, chairman and CEO of Minneapolis-based retail giant Target. After stock prices had surged this

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Looking Backward

“You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard For a few of you, perhaps, the byline you just passed may

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Loyalty and Loss

Today Jeff Japinga blogs for The Twelve. Jeff is an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America who serves as associate dean and assistant

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