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The Room Where It Happened

I was in the room where it happened, to borrow from Hamilton-speak. The room where The Twelve was hatched. A quaint retreat center where the

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Let’s all praise the Lord

This semester, I have the good fortune of teaching a class on the Psalms. Last week, the class was discussing Psalms of Praise, those lofty

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How To Achieve Syllabus Efficiency

Higher education is all about “efficiencies” these days in budgets, class sizes, faculty-student ratio, etc. So I’ve been thinking about how I could be more

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Morning Prayer

‘Easter Morning,’ BBC Wales I planned to follow up to my last post, on Neo-Calvinism, with a bit of polemics, but then I thought why

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Denial of Death

When I was still a relatively young professor, I played on the seminary basketball team. In the second game of the season, I planted my

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Our Pastor

Some years back I had the privilege of doing an on-stage interview with Rev. Eugene Peterson at the Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin

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