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Kate Kooyman

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Be Known

My favorite line in the Belhar Confession tells us that the church’s job is “to know and bear one another’s burdens.” I think about this

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The Gifts Paul Forgot

I’m aware that there’s a certain science — even a whole industry’s worth of church curriculum — devoted to the actual list of Scripturally-sanctioned spiritual

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The Wall Is Already Built

If I were you, I would have stopped paying attention a while ago. The maddening and sickening work of keeping track of the constant headlines

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Prayers for Immigrants

It’s been a busy week, since both the RCA and CRC held their Synods at Calvin College. In lieu of writing more words, I’m happy

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Politically Correct

I try to have a sense of humor, so when someone sent me a video about Social Justice Warriors, poking fun at my culture of

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Human. Holy.

Last week we marked Ascension Day, forty days since the resurrection of Jesus, and the day that his body was taken up into heaven. The

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Limitless

“What would it mean for Christians to give up that little piece of the American Dream that says, ‘You are limitless’? Everything is not possible.

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This Is about Race

I sat in a room recently with moms and dads who learned about how they can prepare their families in the event of an Immigration

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It’s Alright, I Could Be Wrong.

My most anxiety-inducing assignment while in seminary was leading chapel. Students, still in the learning stages of grasping Reformed theology, took turns preaching a sermon

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