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Geometry, Broccoli, and Jesus

Last week, I attended a seminar for educational leaders called Adaptive Schools. Led by Carolyn McKanders, who spent 28 years in the Detroit Public Schools

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Scott

Scott lived next door in my college dorm. He was friendly and outgoing, well-known and loved on campus, a gifted musician. Many expected he would

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Sharing Stories, Seeing God

Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. —Jesus You may have noticed that Adrian deLange wrote last week, Jacqui Mignault before

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Soup or Salad?

News from the future . . . Sometime in the fall of 2033, what was once an innocent choice became fraught with polarizing possibilities. Protestants

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Religious not Spiritual

Stephanie“Why do you think I do all this?” That was Stephanie’s answer to my question, “Tell me, do you believe all this stuff?” I was

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That cop is us

I’ve never met Chris Schurr, the Grand Rapids police officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya. But I feel like I have. I read the

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Flannery in Eastertide

Mystery & Manners Last week, the doctoral cohort I’m participating in with the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination converged to spend a week together.

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Neglected Fruit

As we have just turned the corner into May, I am recalling where life was two years ago.  Like most people in early May of

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