Category: Blog

Crazy Beats

It’s already 9 days into April, or as the literati like to call it, National Poetry Month.  I hope you’ve been celebrating appropriately—or even inappropriately,

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Praying in Restaurants

“Grandpa, we don’t pray in restaurants!” So declared my daughter to my father, many, many years ago. Our food had arrived, and as was his

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Lent’s Pachyderm, again

Good Monday to you. After much hemming and hawing over several half-baked ideas for today’s post, I’ve decided to re-post this piece. I humbly (re)submit

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Noah: An Author Interview

I’ve been reading a lot of author interviews lately to prepare for Calvin’s Festival of Faith and Writing. So when I went to see the

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Melville in Port au Prince

The image I won’t soon forget from Haiti’s National Museum is a elaborately rigged ball and chain from the nation’s horrific dark ages, the days

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DMin or PhD?

I thirst for the living God. Where shall I go?   I love learning. I love the process of reading, studying, conversing, and wrestling with

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Ti Gar and Gospel Audacity

Note: Today’s blog is a guest blog by my colleague Dr. John Bolt, Professor of Systematic Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, and I thank John

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Hi Miggy

  Q: Why is Miguel Cabrera so good? A: Because God likes baseball. So said an opposing scout, quoted in last week’s Sports Illustrated.  The

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Running to Stand Still

And so she woke upWoke up from where she was lying stillSaid, “I gotta do somethingAbout where we’re going” You gotta cry without weepingTalk without

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