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Seeking the Face of the Text

By David Timmer Aviyah Kushner grew up immersed in the Hebrew Bible. Born to an American Jewish father and an Israeli mother, she was raised

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The Stewardship of Words

Words. I love words. I love the way they look and sound. I love learning their secret histories and cracking them open to explore what’s

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Death, Life, and Crash Helmets

Death, Life, and Crash-Helmets by Jill Ver Steeg Annie Dillard in her book Teaching a Stone to Talk writes: Does anyone have the foggiest idea

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One Day on the Mount

Do not worry. I get it. You’re trying to be gentle and reassuring and I appreciate that. I do. But you realize I have anxiety/depression,

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Stumbling into Awe

This past week I co-led another Prairie Serve, an event that brings high school students from the U.S. and Canada to Sioux City, Iowa to

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Hit

The light turns green. I step into the crosswalk at River Avenue and 16th Street in downtown Holland, Michigan and as I do, a strange

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God Counts by Ones

We saw it a few years back.   There was a major refugee crisis.  We knew many thousands were fleeing violence and poverty and trying to

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