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Richard J. Mouw

Thinking about Commonness

Richard J. Mouw Like most people raised in North American Protestantism, I was taught songs in my early childhood about the love of Jesus. I

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Those Surprising Ashes

Richard J. Mouw Lent always takes me by surprise. I’m never quite ready for it. This has always been my pattern, going back to my

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“Those Years …”

JUNE/JULY 2012: ESSAY by Richard J. Mouw At a seminary in Asia, the dean of the school introduced me to one of his faculty members.

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The Selfsame One

Question 52. What comfort is it to thee that “Christ shall come again to judge the quick and the dead”? Answer: That in all my

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24: The Moral Work of Watching

I’m sorry that Jack Bauer is gone. He has left us before, of course–there were always those many months between seasons in the series’ eight-season

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What the Millennialists Have Right

Back in the days when theologians in the world of conservative Protestantism got excited about the differences among premillennialists, postmillenialists, and amillennialists, it was not

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