Category: Blog

Handwritten

Jes is away on vacation for the month of August and is happy to introduce to you Grace Miguel Cipriano. I first met Grace through

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Orthodoxy and In Christ Alone

Note: Because of the timeliness of this blog post and because it makes such excellent observations, I invited my colleague, Greg Scheer, to post today

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Our Friends the Mennonites

My senior year of college, in a capstone sort of course, I read John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus and Richard Mouw’s Politics and

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Nobody Asked Me, But . . .

It’s ancient history now, but once upon a time there used to be these things called “newspapers,” and big cities not only had one but

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Organic Twinkie

Heads up… the 80 year old man in me is breaking out this morning. He doesn’t come around too often, but every now and again

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How Long? Not Long?

  My mind keeps circling back to Trayvon Martin—not to the person, admittedly, nor to the trial with its outrageous verdict. But to the Stand

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If Words Matter

Jennifer L. Holberg will be away from the blog for several weeks. Her replacement is T. Jefferson Underhill. Underhill, thinking about a career change, is

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What I Saw at the UCC Synod

Today, we welcome guest blogger, Phyllis Palsma, a minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America.  She currently serves as contract minister

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