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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

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Is No Thing Sacred?

The adult discussion group at church was talking about “Faith and Creation Care.” As expected, the creation stories of Genesis and some of the robust

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Happy Birthday to Dort

In an odd, little corner of the world that I sometimes inhabit, people are celebrating the four-hundredth anniversary of the close of the Synod of

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Resurrection and Our Past

The most memorable Easter sermon I can recall (it wasn’t mine by the way) used that old chestnut of a song, On a Clear Day,

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Heresies I Have Loved: II

“A good sermon should skate right up to the edge of heresy. Make your point to the extreme. You’ll have other sermons to pull in

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Buon San Giuseppe

San Giuseppe. Saint Joseph. Mary’s husband. Jesus’s supposed father. The patron saint of fathers, carpenters, laborers, of Sicily and Canada. We Reformed folk have always

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Martin, My Dad…and me

What does a guy like me, who’s lived a very white life, and who’s not a historian have to offer to Black History Month? Not

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Heresies I Have Loved

“A good sermon should skate right up to the edge of heresy. Make your point to the extreme. You’ll have other sermons to pull in

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