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Poetry by Barbara Crooker

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2008: POETRY by Barbara Crooker Prayer in Autumn Turn me to gold, Lord, burnish me; strip me of chlorophyll, all those green thoughts. Let

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Crying for Strangers

When Tim Russert died suddenly in June, I felt like I had lost a friend. Millions of people felt that way, and it’s not that

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The Best of the West

Let me introduce you to the Wests. Perhaps I should say the “very” Wests, for George and Fiona live in Westfield Drive in the West

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Plaintive Notes

Sitting in the hot tub at the end of the deck under a roof just transparent enough to let in light, he was surrounded on

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God’s Assignment

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and gave one of the greatest speeches

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The Arms of Christ

My dad died in a car accident five years ago. It made it more strikingly difficult because my husband and I, along with my sister

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The Fourth Act

Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell’s essay, “Reformed Intramurals: What Neo-Calvinists Get Wrong” (February 2008), touched on some important challenges for neo-Calvinists today. His concluding story about the great

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