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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

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Don’t Be an Advent Snob

Was it this year’s unusual calendar? Or maybe it’s that I’m now retired from the pastorate? But it seemed like Christmas mirth and zaniness had

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Welcome to Coon Rapids

Welcome to Coon Rapids, Iowa. And why did my visit there remind me of the American church? I was in Coon Rapids last August to

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Pastors’ Appreciation Month

I always appreciated not receiving much appreciation during Pastors’ Appreciation Month. Invented by the sellers of greeting cards and trinkets, pushed by “Christian” media, it’s

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Driestarren — Three Stars

No one has ever called me a Kuyperian, and I’m okay with that. Then Kuyper scholar par excellence and RJ blogger, Jim Bratt, mentioned Kuyper’s driestarren

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The Oberlin Option

American Utopias — Shakers, Mormons, Oneida. Can a “city on a hill” also be a sending, transformative agent? Oberlin tried. From The Anxious Bench.

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Why I am still a Christian

Kristin Kobes DuMez answers on her newsletter, “DuMez Connections.” Includes a video link from the Holy Post.

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The Next Chapter

Our dog died last month. Thank you for your condolences. I think almost all of us have learned to take the death of pets seriously.

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