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Raids on the Inarticulate

Those beautiful, melancholy lines from the Book of Common Prayer—“in the midst of life, we are in death”—have become a kind of leitmotif for me

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Hoodies and Habits

I just returned from Minnesota, from a writing workshop called “Deepening Words: Writing and the Spiritual Life,” led by writer and scholar Lauren Winner. She

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Titanic Apocalypse

Summer driving season affords an opportunity to listen to music over and over. Knowing how many times I’ve listened to Bob Dylan’s Tempest (2012) as

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Engage Your Core

For the past several summers, I’ve taken a yoga class with a number of my colleagues at Calvin. For the first few summers, we met

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  James Russell Lowell, who stood grandly among the literary luminaries of the mid-19th century, created a darling series of thumbnail sketches featuring his rival

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Grass and Flowers, Slowly

The July issue of the National Geographic magazine has an incredible article about the haymaking practiced in the small villages of the Transylvanian region of

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Bible. Poetry. Music.

“What do we progressive Christians use for devotional resources?” Welcome to a little insider pastoral conversation in my office. This question lit me up! I

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Words Matter

There is far less traffic on The 12 about this year’s RCA General Synod than last year’s, most probably because peace and unity reigned this

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