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Tulip Time & God

Is no theology preferable to bad theology? In my town, Pella, Iowa, Tulip Time was almost three weeks ago. The tulips weren’t quite ready, but

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Advice Season

My fellow academics sometimes complain about having to attend commencement ceremonies every spring, but I don’t mind sitting through them. I appreciate the opportunity to

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Legends

Two other mountain men stayed with him, and one of them, Jim Bridger, would become even more famous than he. It was 1823, and they

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A Slippery Slope

Sin can be a slippery slope. I can still picture it, the baseboard that ran along the outer side of stairwell. I was a kid

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May Thoughts

Back when I joined the Perspectives magazine Board of Editors in 2000 (which even now does not sound all that long ago), I was struck

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Mother’s Day

Gotta admit, Mother’s Day is not my favorite holiday. Nothing whatsoever against my mother, mothers in general, or mother as a concept. Not even if

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Loosening Our Grip

In my past life I was a high school baseball coach. I remember trying to teach 14-15 year old kids to pitch. Most of them

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