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Amanda Benckhuysen

A Holy and Subversive Imagination

My hope, in this series of blogposts, is not only to honor Brueggemann’s legacy, but also, using Brueggemann’s work, to brainstorm together what we as

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Debra Rienstra

What Is Mature Hope?

One way or another, probably all of us are pondering the possibility of hope these days. Some days we “feel” hope, some days we “do”

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Laura de Jong

A Delightful Inheritance

Justin and I looked at each other over our coffees and knew at once that this would be our text as well. For in a

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David Landegent

A God With No Borders

An old proverb says, “When the map and the terrain differ, the terrain is always right.”

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Jennifer L. Holberg

With Our Hearts, as With Our Lips

For most of July, I was on an extended trip to England: partly for research, partly for vacation, and partly to prepare for my fall

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Kathryn Vilela

The Stuff We’re Made Of

Plenty of very smart people have spent significant brain power parsing out the difference between “things” and “stuff”– and the more you dig, the more

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Jeff Munroe

High Speed Makes His Confession

We lived outside Cincinnati, Ohio when I was a kid and my great-grandfather, Howard Sumner Munroe (he always claimed his initials “H. S.” stood for

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Meg Jenista and Katie Roelofs

Worship: Our School of Protest

It’s not just the words that we sing, it’s the very fact that this is how we choose to engage our faith and our world–in

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James Bratt

The Wizard of Garden Grove

Schuller’s land of Oz turned out to be Orange County, California, and there he did not find but built his Emerald City.

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Sara Sybesma Tolsma

When Do Girls Fall Behind?

The gap cannot be explained by boys being inherently better at math than girls. Numerous studies show that males and females perform similarly in math