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Tim Van Deelen

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Deer Me!

The good people of our village Rotary put up a Christmas light display every year and I selflessly volunteer my services in policing their deer

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Wildlife Management Tip

Wildlife management tip (I’m an expert): You can drive mice from your wall by annoying them — loudly. Hence, ye olde boom box (remember them?)

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Sandstone

St. John’s Catholic church in our village is constructed of yellow sandstone. It’s a graceful steeple and stained-glass presence in one of our older neighborhoods.

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Sunflowers

Confession here. Early in my undergraduate career at Calvin College (now University), I became disenamored with my choice to declare a Biology major. As a

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Holy Oaks

At Hotel Chequamegon, I pay the state rate, but ghosts stay for free. Off the lobby, the parlor faces north over Chequamegon Bay. A book-jacket

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Context

I think every church leader should listen to and contemplate episode 23 of Professor Debra Rienstra’s Refugia Faith podcast. It’s entitled “Purple Zone Refugia: Leah

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September Rain

Our Village President called and asked about endangered species. We knew each other because our sons were soccer teammates. The Village wanted to build a

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The Terrace

My day’s highlight was lunch with a former grad student. We caught up on her classmates and mutual friends, departmental politics, her life now. Their

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Impractical Love

Curse you, Rev. Jonker! Well not really, but we were coached to open provocatively. Still, it’s 3:34 am and I am re-listening to his sermon.

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