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James Bratt

The Geography of Faith

I teach broad surveys of religious history, so I have to pay a lot of attention to the frame and flow of the narrative. Unless

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“Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Cast up on the shores of survival after virtually non-stop teaching since the first week of January, I head off on spring break tomorrow. Going

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The Reformed Journal

Pardon me for being late with my post today, but I wanted to wait for the event that’s the subject of my reflections. This afternoon

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Super Bowl and Disney World

Where I live February is the lousiest month. The shortest, but still the lousiest. In ordinary winters, the snow by now is gray and hardened

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Bogart and Niebuhr

This month I’m teaching a three-week intensive course on Film Noir and American Culture. The “movies with a dark look” emerged in the United States

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Bachman Back to Kuyper?

Bachman Back to Kuyper? Now that Michelle Bachman has dropped her campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, perhaps we can put to rest—again—a genealogy

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Bachman Back to Kuyper?

Now that Michelle Bachman has dropped her campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, perhaps we can put to rest—again—a genealogy used to explain her

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