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Commonplaces

One of my colleagues regularly keeps a commonplace book. Commonplace books have a long and interesting history, but they are basically just personal compilations of

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Where Are You?

by Chuck DeGroat It’s the very first question God asks after Adam and Eve’s fall from grace. They are hiding, as we all do. But

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It’s a Revolution!

by Stacey Midge Jes Kast-Keat is away today. We welcome guest-blogger Stacey Midge. Stacey  serves as an Associate Minister at the First Reformed Church of

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Times (Don’t) Change

My daughter knows I like picking up old postcards at antique malls sometimes and so last week brought me home a couple oldies she found

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Sacred Spaces

Driving through the Badlands National Park in South Dakota, it is easy for me to see why the Lakota viewed this part of what is

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Not Guilty, Just Responsible

I was asked to speak this week at a teach-in addressing the latest spate of racially charged killings involving police—killings by police and killings of

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Ghosts

    There we were, driving down a driveway made up of two deep ruts, moving deeper and deeper into the Arizona forest. At 7,500 feet,

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Stewardship of Power

by Kate Kooyman I remember coming home from a youth group mission trip to urban Chicago when I was in high school and agonizing over

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