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What About Hunting?

Writing for The Twelve scored me a lecture invitation at Calvin University’s Academy for Life Long Learning on Monday where I could “talk about anything

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Degrowth

When I was in college, I was a counselor at a Christian summer camp in Michigan. Every session a volunteer from The Gideons International would

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Field of Dreams — Redux

This is a follow-on to Jon Pott’s elegantly written piece about his boyhood memories at Comiskey Park in Chicago. I am sorry to note, however,

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Hope: All Will Be Well

Julian of Norwich is known for these words: “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and every manner of things shall be well.”

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Nieuwe Kerk

Did I ever say…’why have you not built me a house of cedar’? 1 Samuel 7:7 We climb an expanse of broad stone steps and

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Morning Thanks

Part of the shock that first morning at a rural medical clinic in Ghana grew from my innocence and perhaps my substantial prejudices, the hefty

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The Shack

There’s just something about this place. Each fall, we take our GreenHouse students on a Saturday excursion to the Leopold shack followed by an afternoon

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Bildungsroman

Last year, I made an interactive design project called “Bildungsroman.” I was learning about bildungsroman as a literary genre of coming-of-age stories — stories about

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Meet the Teacher Night

As the days pass in my classroom with my second grade Poppers (that’s my class nickname for them this year), I often think about the

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