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Poetry

On a long commute home on the A train, I recently finished Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. Have you

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Stubborn Evils

Our daughter’s semester abroad this Fall gave my wife and me the opportunity last week to visit the country of Hungary and specifically the wonderful

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Is Mary Jane Coming to Church?

Three cities in my home state of Michigan decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana in last week’s elections (following the earlier lead of several

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Transforming Kuyper

Had a great discussion with faculty colleagues last night about my biography of Abraham Kuyper. Some of the people in the room had been reared

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Taking Sex Dolls to Church

  The film Lars and the Real Girl tells the story about a young man—Lars—trying to work through relational and emotional issues. His mother died

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Your Own Kind of Music

When going through some of my mother’s papers, I discovered a very old church newsletter she had kept.  That particular issue featured a column in

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Men in boats

I don’t typically follow sports very closely, but I got really into the World Series during the past couple weeks. Watching the Red Sox win

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