Category: Blog

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Tongue Check

Recently my denomination of the Christian Reformed Church in North America issued a statement following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.  It has

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Google Cannot Teach Discernment

Between 2015 and 2016, Sam Wineburg and his team tested students in twelve states and studied 7,804 responses. The team specifically analyzed online civic reasoning,

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Standing Stones

Read: Joshua 4:1-9 When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’ then you shall tell them that the

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Little Pockets: Refugia Basics

I’ve been working this summer on a podcast based on the idea of “refugia.” I wrote about this idea here at The Reformed Journal blog

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The Promise is Hidden

This morning there was a frog in my shower. I was at a campground in Northern Michigan, and the little green guy was all huddled

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The prophet at 85

Last week was Wendell Berry’s 85th birthday, so it seems like the right moment to feature a couple of poems from his large output. Berry

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Undocumented

“What do you think should be done about illegal immigrants? I honestly don’t have an answer.” A good friend asked me this after my Facebook

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Sabbath and Celebration

Read: Matthew 12:1-8 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath; his disciples were hungry and they began to pluck heads of

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