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Nathan Groenewold

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Bubbles & Watermelon

In her sermon last month, Pastor Kristen Livingston recounted a scene of kids at a pool party running toward some bubbles and watermelon that had

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The Cost of Silencing Stories

“Thank you for a reasoned, unemotional, and thoughtful essay on immigration.” I received this response to an essay that I wrote for The Reformed Journal

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another lament

I suppose if we yelled at God more, we might yell at each other less. The Book that we Christians are left with is full

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On Awkward Space

I don’t know why I answered ‘yes’ when a woman on the second of three massive concourses at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American

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On Curiosity and War Stories

“Stay curious just a little bit longer.” A Cohort Detroit (the ministry I lead) alum introduced me to this wisdom from Michael Bungay Stanier, author

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Mark Driscoll and Me

Mark Driscoll is an example of how not to lead, and that is not news to those privy to his meteoric rise and fall. As

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In Delight

My recent pursuit began quite simply. I was walking the dog on a snowy afternoon, listening to essayist and poet Ross Gay on a This

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Ordination

On Sunday at around 4:50 PM, I was pronounced “Minister of the Word” during a live-streamed “service of pastoral ordination.” This means that I may

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Undocumented

“What do you think should be done about illegal immigrants? I honestly don’t have an answer.” A good friend asked me this after my Facebook

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