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Falling Overboard

My dad loved to be on a boat. He’d whip us around the lake in a speedboat while we clung for dear life to the

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A Lifetime’s Debt

Last month, I got to see my father for the first time since December 2019. I surprised him for his birthday, but the gift was

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A Game of Cat and Mouse

As it was unfolding in real time, I couldn’t decide if the event on the yard that day was creepy, crazy or beautiful. I was

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On Reparations

Last month my church held a series of discussions on reparations. It’s our penultimate session of an 11-month discussion series we’ve been completing together. We’ve

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Against the Logic of Separation

Last fall I participated in a dialogue circle hosted by an equity organization in our city. Fourteen men and women—seven black, seven white—gathered to talk

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Gezellig

There are some words in the Dutch language that just can’t be translated properly into English. Benauwd. Verklempt. Voorpret. And gezellig (pronounced phlegm-ze-li-phlegm). Gezellig is

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