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Can’t you read the Signs?

I’m a sucker for highway signs.  Wall Drug, Ruby Falls, Mail Pouch, Burma Shave . . . a well done sign says something significant in

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On Becoming Generously Reformed

Today we welcome guest blogger Chuck DeGroat. Chuck teaches counseling and pastoral care at Western Theological Seminary, in Holland, Michigan. He co-founded Newbigin House of

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Next Year’s Words

At one point in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, the speaker has a rather Dantean meeting with one of his long-dead teachers.  Of course, he is

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Dark, Year-End Hymns

What is it about the end of the year that makes us turn to stout and solemn hymns? While the TV shows us people wearing

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Elf on a shelf

I learned about the recent “elf on a shelf” trend on the day after Thanksgiving, when the plane I was boarding was preparing to take

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Abide with Me

But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry

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Authenticity

It’s age.  Why not tell it like it is? I wouldn’t be ornery if I were 24 or even 48.  I’m not.  I’m 65, and

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