Category: Blog

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What’s the Message?

My son turned 14 last week. For his birthday we bought him tickets to see his favorite artist in concert, so Monday night we drove

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Aunt Jane

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single young woman in possession of an imagination must imagine herself the heroine in an Austen novel.

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Over-Storied

By Heidi S. De Jonge Apparently, Monday, the 23rd of April, was World Book Day. I love books, but I’m beginning to wonder if I

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Weak Power

At the recent Festival of Faith & Writing here at Calvin College and Seminary, I had the great privilege of interviewing pastor and author Fleming

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Eye Contact

When is the last time you made serious eye contact with someone? Not just a glance, but sustained eye contact. Does it make you uncomfortable?

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Phil

Fifty years after it went out of style, he still wore his hair–great hair, by the way–in a duck tail. Had he let it grow

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It’s Alright, I Could Be Wrong.

My most anxiety-inducing assignment while in seminary was leading chapel. Students, still in the learning stages of grasping Reformed theology, took turns preaching a sermon

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With Taxes Now Behind Us

If you live in the United States, chances are that taxes, income taxes specifically, have been on your mind and part of your life in

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