Category: Blog

Feeling Trembly

[8/5/15 While the Rev. Jes Kast-Keat is on vacation, the Rev. Marla Rotman is filling in. Marla shares the position of lead pastor with her

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Outliers and Spoilers

For many years I greatly enjoyed posting restaurant reviews for Zagat. I stopped doing it a few years ago after Google bought out Zagat and

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Who Would Like to Be Jesus?

By Brian Keepers The sound of Israeli jets rumbles above us like a chorus of thunder. The students keep working, seemingly impervious to the whole

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Eulogies

by David Pettit He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.  Psalm 78:39 “I write eulogies,” he

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Chinatown

Here’s the second installment, gentle reader, in my series on five favorite films—more precisely, five movies that I’ve found worthy of virtually infinite re-viewing, with

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I Owe My Life to VBS

Have you ever looked back on your life and connected the dots, only to discover one particular moment that set you on your current path? I’m

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Reclaiming Maturity

[Today’s writer is Adam Navis. He is the Director of Operations at Words of Hope and is completing his D.Min. on the intersection of faith

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The Latest Bestseller

Even if you don’t teach English, like I do, you’ll no doubt be aware of the endless lamentations about the “death of reading” or the

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The Law

Breakin’ rocks in the hot sun, I fought the law and the law won. Beside fascists and Calvinists, does anybody really like the law? This,

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