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Only Something Nice?

Last week one day I was reviewing some of the audio sermons available in the archive of my Center for Excellence in Preaching website.  One

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I am a Flintoid

I’ve been reading Gordon Young’s Teardown, his memoir about growing up in, escaping from, and returning to Flint, Michigan.  Flint is Detroit without the charm

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Ecumenicity and History

Last time I threw an elbow to my right regarding the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, so this week I’ll exercise a

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The Frail Thin Line

I appreciated yesterday’s post by Theresa (or was it Mary? I thought Theresa just turned 40 not to long ago?) The part about “acting our

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50 is the new…..50

    I seem to rather frequently read phrases like the following: x (some particular age) is the new y (some particular age that is

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How much? THIS much!

 Hull-House gymnasium, c. 1908, photographer Wallace Kirkland Sarina Gruver Moore is guest-blogging this summer when she’s not gallivanting off to Chicago. She teaches English at

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Not All Things are Beneficial

Today we welcome guest-blogger, Josh Bode. Josh is minister of the Woodstock Reformed Church, in Woodstock, New York. What happens when we think about the

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Deep Practice

Through random book serendipity, I came across the 2009 book The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle, and I’ve been reading about “talent hotbeds.” Coyle wanted

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