Category: Blog

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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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Looking at the Veil

I have spent over a year now looking for him. I have experienced his quiet care every three weeks, when my Kurdish barber cuts my

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Lies We Tell Young People

I finally watched the lovely film Coda, which won the 2022 Oscar for Best Picture. I enjoyed it fine. I appreciated the celebration of characters

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Dr. Sue

Susan La Flesche Picotte simply could not have dreamed of a hospital as a child. She wouldn’t have known what a hospital was. Her father was a

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Big Show

Standing outside in my socks in a 25 mph wind and sipping pea soup out of a coffee cup was probably gilding the lily but

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WWJD versus WDJD

Years ago, society faddishly latched on to the phrase “What Would Jesus Do?” Also known as WWJD. We wore bracelets and t-shirts as a daily

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Babe Ruth and the National Pastime

Among the deeply theological subjects John J. Timmerman wrote about in the old Reformed Journal, none was more winsomely treated than baseball. This tip of

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A Sacrament of Love

He cradles her feet, tired with years, in his sturdy hands. Slowly, he pours water over them. Then washes them, gently with a cloth. Mostly

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