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Holy Trouble-Making

I was on the road again last weekend (this has got to stop!) for the annual conference sponsored by the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public

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Is This All There Is?

Five more episodes—that’s all that’s left for Don Draper. It’s been a magical ride through the 1960’s as Don’s meticulously constructed life has been woven

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Conventionality is not morality

I’m writing this on Tuesday, April 21—Charlotte Brontë’s birthday. Next year is her bicentennial, but we might as well celebrate 199, too. These days Jane

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Requiem

Below, I want to share with you the homily I offered at my grandmother’s memorial service, six months ago now, just shy of her 94th

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Delight

by Meg Jenista “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day

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Rev. Robert Schuller, 1926-2015

  When Fred Manfred’s Gerrit Engleking, the raw-boned protagonist of The Secret Place, left northwest Iowa (under a cloud) and went to live in California

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Peace Be With You

“Peace be with you.” Following the resurrection and appearing to the disciples Jesus’ first words are peace. Peace is the expression of the resurrection Jesus

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