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And a place for dreams

There were littler ones, babies even, hard as that is to consider. It looks to me as if the lineup in this proud old photo

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Sunflowers

Confession here. Early in my undergraduate career at Calvin College (now University), I became disenamored with my choice to declare a Biology major. As a

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Home and Away

I had another blog started for this week when I was absolutely arrested by a new poem from my friend, the brilliant poet, Jane Zwart.

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For All the Ordinary Saints

A colleague once noted a unique feature of church websites, and a roughly geographical divide. Midwestern church websites often include pictures of people, whereas Eastern

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Happy Birthday to Us!

The daily blog of the Reformed Journal turns 11 today. Adolescence is just around the corner! On October 31, 2011 the first blog was posted.

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Did Manna Have a Spiky Shell?

At twilight today a legion of costumed children will pester their neighbors for gifts of candy and sweets. “Halloween” carries distant echoes of All Saints’

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Making Family Our Idol

Isn’t it interesting that Jesus rarely says anything affirming about the nuclear family? You won’t catch Jesus asking Peter to have another child, or telling

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Rest Revisited

I was delighted the other week to see a piece in the New York Times on Tricia Hersey, the founder of the Nap Ministry. I

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My Affirming Flame

It’s always tough to have to follow up Laura de Jong in this space, especially when she writes a beautiful post like yesterday’s on …

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