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Duane Kelderman

I Made a Mental Note that Night

It’s crazy what you remember, but I remember that it was so dead quiet in that room that the crickets in the darkness outside were

Chipping Through the Ice

What was happening to the writer who first sang “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen? Nobody knows but Jesus.”

Why Does Jesus Weep?

I learned to cry by watching my father, a man of many emotions.

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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

Heresies I Have Loved: III

While I brace for impact, I have some secret sympathies for Marcion’s claim that we should do away with the Old Testament.

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Jeff Munroe

Donald Trump, Theologian

Religion’s back now, hotter than ever before, I have to tell you. The National Prayer Breakfast was held on February 5, and since its beginning

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Carol Bechtel

Spot On Psalms

“Why, O LORD, do you stand far off?” it asks, straight out of the blocks. “Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?” So

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Peter Boogaart

Smooching, Origins, Yellowstone, and More

Origin stories have consequences. Whatever you believe, consciously or not, is the way things “really are” will become your stage directions. Each of us will

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Jared Ayers

A Compassionate and Gracious God

To this point in Scripture’s story, God speaks and God does things. But, here for the first time, God actually says what God is like.

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Timothy Van Deelen

Campfires

Lent begins in darkness and asks people of faith to search and sit with it, to sit with the uncertainty and longing — and if