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James C. Schaap

My People’s Mean Streak

That mean streak, as Manfred himself knew, is never quite as proud as when it can hang on some doctrinal principle that legitimizes its existence.

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Rowland Van Es, Jr.

The Fox vs. the Hen

We thought it would never happen here, but now it is. This is not the way life is supposed to be. Deep down we know

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Tami Zietse

A Night with the Worms

A spring evening, it began to rain. It was the soft rain that lulls one to sleep at night, the kind of rain that reminds

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Meg Jenista

Hope’s Two Daughters

It is this very Christian habit of eschatological hope that grants us the temporal foolishness to work for more justice, more flourishing-peace even now, before

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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

Young Love, Big Yes!

Did young Christians in the 1980s marry early because they wanted to have sex within the bounds of marriage? Absolutely!

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Meg Jenista

What Do We Do with the Mad We Feel?

We should say that the biblical witness regarding anger is complicated. My working theory is that getting good and mad might be exactly what God

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Allison Vander Broek

Harvest of Greed and Power

Fredrick reflects on the changes he witnessed from the Iowa of his childhood to Iowa now with its massive industrial farms, gutted small towns, and