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Gerald Bosch: A Life

It’s all so understandable. From the vantage point of 75-plus years, the war seems ancient history. Besides, so many of those who fought had no

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Be Very Afraid

I’ve had a song stuck in my head since November 3. It wasn’t until I read Laura de Jong’s lovely collection of poems in her

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Now Just Listen to That!

Thanks to a minister father who was also pianistically trained, I grew up in a home that was blessedly alive with music, not only with

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My Fifteen Minutes of Fame

In October, I experienced “fifteen minutes of fame.” I left a kind and generous congregation to use what little voice I had against American evangelicalism’s

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The Thanksgiving Dilemma

A friend asked on Facebook: “Anyone else thrilled to cancel Thanksgiving, thanks to COVID? It’s the most physically exhausting, emotionally draining, politically fractious, whiplash-scheduled holiday,

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And then…

Recently, I’ve had several conversations with friends who I hadn’t heard from in quite some time. As you would expect, there were all sorts of

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