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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

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Retirement: two years in

People have asked about what I’m doing. Here are a couple things I’ve become involved with. First, I add my obligatory Reformed-humility caveat. Of course

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Suffering Pilates

As a Pilate disliker, I always resented his presence in the creeds. He felt like such an inappropriate presence, a festering sliver, an interloper.

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Trans-figuration

In our transgender friends, there is something more, something surprising to many, but that has been there all along, and is an essential part of

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Letters from Stanley

Picture this scene. It’s the late 1980s. My wife and I are co-pastoring a small church in a rural hamlet in upstate New York. We

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The Best of 2024

It was tough. We had to leave out a lot. But here’s some that you may want to re-read, or if you missed them the

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Dangerous Atheists?

It is the unvarnished dismissal of ideals like human equality, decency, peace, and respect for life.

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Echo Chamber or Community?

A community gives you the energy to come out of your echo chamber or silo or isolation, or whatever image you prefer.

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