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Playing Ball Like….a Megastar

In a pivotal scene from the film, The Sandlot, “Ham” Porter gives the final chilling insult to the boys from the fancy baseball team: “You

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Ride On, King Jesus

Ride on, King Jesus, ride on.No man can-a-hinder me.  In preparation for Palm Sunday, I’ve spent time asking why I might have joined the crowd

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Messiah Complex

About halfway through the umpteenth sweeping battle sequence in Dune: Part 2, I thought to myself: I’m bored. Oh yes, I know: the cinematography is

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March Madness

Just so happened to sit on a folding chair set up directly beneath the basket on the north end of the court last week at

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Stonington

Distance hides it a bit but not too much. I checked the rearview and braked hard to turn south on Forest Road 513. An afterthought,

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Blossom and rejoice and sing

Four years ago, at right about this time, I started the blog with T.S. Eliot’s observation that “midwinter spring is its own season.” Four years ago

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Thinking About the Departed

Just before gametime, a young football player received notice that his father had died unexepectedly. Given the tragic circumstances, his coach told him that no

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The Run of History

Hello again, Ron: Here’s the third installment of my take on how people in the Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America are

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The Beginning or The End

This is but the beginning of birth pangs, he said. Labor? This is labor?How much pain are we in for?And where are the midwives? This

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