Category: Blog

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Church Conservationists

When I was a kid, each summer we’d pack up our station wagon, hitch a cargo trailer to the back and load it up with

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The Best of 2022

Some of our regular RJ bloggers offer their favorites of 2022 — books, TV, movies, whatever. These aren’t necessarily works that came out this year,

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The Tears of All the Years

In 1989, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous “Reindeer Ruling.” Controversy erupted in a municipality in the hilly western side of the Keystone

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Returns

Just what is this period, this interregnum, between Christmas and Epiphany?  Is there a focus biblically?  Lectionaries often opt for the slaughter of the innocents

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No Angel There

Nativity scenes are great for reminding us of all of the parts of the Christmas story: the angel, the wise men, the shepherds, and of

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The Huron Carol

‘Twas in the moon of winter-timeWhen all the birds had fled, That mighty Gitchi ManitouSent angel choirs instead;Before their light the stars grew dim,And wandering hunters

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Naked in the Mirror

A response to Syd Hielema’s The Church of Jesus in 2047: Life After the Decade from Hell, posted on the Reformed Journal on December 12.

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