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The United States Post Office in Pella, Iowa is a little jewel. The small but stately red brick colonial structure sits just off the town
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The United States Post Office in Pella, Iowa is a little jewel. The small but stately red brick colonial structure sits just off the town

On occasion my sermons take the form of “Tales from New Heidelberg” — stories centered around Pastor Branderhorst and old First Reformed Church in New

Advent: Discipleship in DarknessAn original work of poetry by moi Darkness. The dreadful darkness. The dismal darkness. The dreary darkness. The very, very, dark darkness.

Morning routines. We all have them. Unless you’re like Pentecostals and contemporary worship folk who say they have no order of worship or liturgy. They

Someday I’m going to compile a list of “Christian words” which need a 200 year time out — mothballed until they can be brought out

Every now and again and again, I offer here a buffet of little notes. So please line up to see what looks tasty to you,

Back in the day when I was a faithful mass transit rider, the best bus route for me dropped me about ten blocks away from

The soup ladle pictured above is from Bonnemaman’s girlhood home. Bonnemaman was my wife’s lovable, buoyant grandmother whose life came up a few months short

Don’t try to figure out your own life. That’s too much. The most we can hope for is to try to figure out our parents.