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James Bratt

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Rendezvous with Destiny

It’s a bit daunting to follow up Heidi De Jonge here every two weeks. Heidi plumbs her personal and pastoral experience in a deep yet

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Can We Handle Complexity?

Rebecca Koerselman’s post earlier this week about the “Competing Narratives” of American history struck a nerve with me. For decades I’ve been giving presentations for

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Holidays

N. C. Wyeth, “Thanksgiving Banquet” Today being today, I’m posting a (slightly altered) piece previously published in the November 2005 issue of Perspectives magazine. Thanksgiving

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The New Reformed Journal

Quo Vadis promo still, 1951 I’m on the road again and so have to write this the day before the midterm elections even though it

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Morning Prayer

‘Easter Morning,’ BBC Wales I planned to follow up to my last post, on Neo-Calvinism, with a bit of polemics, but then I thought why

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Rod Jellema, 1927-2018

Death has been in the air lately. There were the funerals of John McCain and Aretha Franklin, minutely analyzed in the national media. Here in

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