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Is everything ultimately quantifiable? Much as I hate to admit it, there is a little part of me that fears this question will someday become
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
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
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
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
American Utopias — Shakers, Mormons, Oneida. Can a “city on a hill” also be a sending, transformative agent? Oberlin tried. From The Anxious Bench.
Kristin Kobes DuMez answers on her newsletter, “DuMez Connections.” Includes a video link from the Holy Post.
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.
The latest from Small Church Big Table exploring the “Holben scale” on views within a church about welcoming LGBTQ+ people.
