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James Bratt

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Once and Future Presidents

The contrast this week has been striking. The solemn ceremonies and tearful farewells for ex-President Jimmy Carter over against the threats, bombast, and bloviations from

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Dante’s Advent

For Advent I decided to read through Dante’s Divine Comedy. All of it. I’ve tried twice before.

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Creation: Launchpad or Limit?

A few weeks ago in this space, Daniel Meeter asked whether there was room for Kuyperians in the Reformed Church in America. His answer was

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What’s Being Lost?

Various Christian Reformed congregations are beginning their forced march toward denominational disaffiliation, and various individuals find themselves on the way out of a job or

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Johnson-Reed, Trump, and Us

Like Laura de Jong yesterday, I’m too rocked by this week’s Christian Reformed Synod to speak to it. Maybe next time. But for now, a

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James McBride

I love the books of James McBride. It started with The Good Lord Bird (2013), the umpteenth telling of the story of John Brown but

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The Run of History

Hello again, Ron: Here’s the third installment of my take on how people in the Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America are

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