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Tim Van Deelen

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November

Pastor Doug is a good egg. I walked over though a blustery gray November and found him waiting in the white party tent we rent.

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Reformation Day

Reformation Sunday in our Lutheran parking lot was cheerfully Wisconsin-ish. Pastor Doug’s red stole paired nicely with the old-timey mackinaw wool plaid he wore under

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What About Hunting?

Writing for The Twelve scored me a lecture invitation at Calvin University’s Academy for Life Long Learning on Monday where I could “talk about anything

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The Shack

There’s just something about this place. Each fall, we take our GreenHouse students on a Saturday excursion to the Leopold shack followed by an afternoon

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Every Onion

My Badgers played the Nittany Lions, the Big 10 opener, on Saturday. Classes started yesterday. Labor Day came on Monday with bratwurst on the backyard

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Ferns on the Ceiling

It’s unnerving and a little touching when a younger friend of many years seems overly concerned with your safety and comfort, but truth is, he

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Packing for Au Sable

I am packing for my summer teaching gig at Au Sable Institute, both physically and mentally. Mental packing means preparing for earnest discussions we always

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IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

On Monday, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the sixth assessment report and by Monday evening, the news cycle was ramping up with

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Resilient Flooring

MEMO To the facilities task force: RE: flooring samples The synthetic wood “resilient” flooring we looked at for the chancel is plastic. It’s at least

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