Category: Blog

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“But God . . .”

It appeared on a good many social media posts I spied.  It was front and center in a worship service at a church I attended. 

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Jefferson’s Children

Historical fiction is a tricky trope. We have information from the past, but are usually missing quite a few pieces. It is fun to fill

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Serving

If ministers serve the incarnate, written, and proclaimed Word, what would it mean to say that they serve the sacraments? Serve the sacramental life of

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Drawing a Line

I was lying in bed last Sunday, scrolling through Facebook, and debating whether to get up and start the day, when I came across a

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Thanksgiving Queen

Three things about my grandparents’ grave you may miss unless I point them out. The first is my bottom half, in white shorts, so telling

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Sandstone

St. John’s Catholic church in our village is constructed of yellow sandstone. It’s a graceful steeple and stained-glass presence in one of our older neighborhoods.

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Our Wild and Wonderful Scriptures

I have been taught a lot of things about Scripture throughout my long life in the Christian Reformed Church. Scripture is infallible and inerrant. It

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Breaking with Tradition

Walking up the stairs of Hagia Sophia was a holy moment for me. I was part of a tour group in Turkey several years ago.

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Sex, Confession, and Discernment

In the summer of 2022, the Christian Reformed Church’s Synod approved a report on human sexuality that went beyond stating a denominational position and offering

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