JANUARY 2012: POETRY by Barbara Crooker   The goldenrod’s tarnished and dull, gone to rust, as the Dow Jones plummets like the mercury on a

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JANUARY 2012: AS WE SEE IT by Chad Ray Many Iowa Republicans going to their local caucuses earlier this month faced an interesting question. Those

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My thanks to Wendell Karsen for so thoughtfully and substantively engaging the “dialogue and discernment” process encouraged by our shared denomination, the Reformed Church in

A specter haunts George Marsden: the specter of modern liberalism. What did it promise? How did it fail? What comes next? To explore these questions,

The question of this guest-edited issue of Perspectives can be asked in two ways. First, we are asking a broad question: How does Christian theology