Category: Blog

Stick to the Text

  In class today I showed this youtube clip of Walter Bruggemann discussing the power of preaching. The class is on worship—the book we’re reading

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The Disappearing Blog

So…it’s the classic case of the “computer ate my blog.” Yep, almost done and then wiped out.  I’ll see if I can construct it for

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Green Pastures

A couple months back, I sat in an Iowa pasture with 14,000 others to see Bill and Hillary. Don’t read too much into that. It

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Pastoring in the midst of Ebola

Susan Sytsma Bratt serves as Associate Pastor of Northridge Presbyterian Church (USA) in Dallas, Texas. She’s also my cousin-in-law (and daughter-in-law of fellow 12 blogger

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More living water

Only once in rural west Africa did I see anything like this–a man, a male, at the community well–and this time there was good reason.

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Conscience Demands

Let me introduce you to JJ TenClay, one of the Reformed Church in America’s newest missionary partners. As her official bio shares: “JJ will work

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Excusing Anger

Serena Williams had a reason, a rationale, an excuse.   She missed a shot in a tennis match last week–a match she went on to win–and

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