Category: Blog

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“In, but not of” stuff

She’d asked me to drop by her class because the topic seemed like something I’d have some thoughts about. That’s what she told me in

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On Being Fourteen, and Dumb

This is a story about learning the hard way how to be vulnerable. The summer before I started high school my church youth group took

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First and Last

My wife and I slipped away to Chicago for a few days at the end of the recent Spring Break week.  We got a good

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Bright Monday!

Bright Monday! Easter Monday. It is a tradition among some Christians—not so much Reformed, but especially Orthodox. This day after Easter is filled with jokes,

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What I Love About Easter, Redux

I am continually struck by the intermingling of cultural and secular ideas with Christian holidays. Spring is my favorite season. I was born in early

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The Silence of Consummation

by Steven Rodriguez Not all silences are the same. There’s a world of difference between the silences of cessation, caesura, and consummation. The first is

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St. Francis and Good Friday

When playing the hero went terribly wrong, and he had recovered from his injuries, Saint Francis came upon a broken down church where he encountered an

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