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Shine, Perishing Republic

Since I’ve drawn holiday-weekend duty, I need to gin up something about the holiday. And if something worked well along that line once, it might

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(Not) Studying Sex

by Kate Kooyman The Christian Reformed Church has appointed a committee of people to spend five years studying how to think more faithfully about human

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Viewing the Summitt

Several years ago–at the end of some heated meeting or other—a colleague told me that I reminded him of Pat Summitt.  He definitely did not

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Calvinist Romance

I have this weird knack of looking for Calvinism-of-a-sort, oddly appearing in pop culture, especially music and sappy romantic love. It’s not a full-time job.

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Accomodation

by Jim Brownson Brian Keepers is off today. We welcome guest-blogger, Jim Brownson.  Jim teaches New Testament at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, and

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A Pow’r Not Theirs to Give

Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, ‘I need to be

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African Drum Camp

by Elizabeth Vander Haagen Debra Rienstra is away today. We welcome guest-blogger Elizabeth Vander Haagen. She is a spiritual director and pastor of Boston Square

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