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Transitive Property

It’s a transition rain in the dark outside my window. It’s heavy and fragrant. The air is soft. Winter is passed and the world is

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Narrative Medicine

John 12:23-25; 27-28a What is a good death? I often taught this poem in a Narrative Medicine course in my role as ethics consultant in

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Effortless Rhythms

Today is my birthday. Sometime during my mid-twenties, I began to lose track of my age. In part, I’ve never been great with numbers —

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DREAM and Promise

On Wednesday I was on a phone call with Iowa Senator Grassley. On the line with me were people from around the state of Iowa—many

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True Lies

We live in a truth-deficient age. The explosive growth of “information” sources on talk radio, cable TV, and the Internet has not, ironically, resulted in

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Check Out the RJ Site

Have you visited the newly refreshed Reformed Journal site?For example, try Travis West’s essay, Learning Lament: Remembering Tina. There are enough essays, poems, and book

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Science and The Thankful Heart

In a conversation with a colleague yesterday the topic of popular conceptions of science came up.  We noted together that in the past year and

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