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Sin and Wrath in My Back Yard

Adam: “That woman you saddled me with, it’s all her fault.” God: “Yeah, right. Look, the deal is, you’re still responsible. So you’re going to

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Blessed Assurance

  I don’t believe I will ever sing “Blessed Assurance” without thinking of my father.  He never mentioned that hymn as being among his top

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Coming Home on Vacation

outside of Indianola, Iowa The great American ecologist (and forester, conservationist, writer, wildlife biologist) Aldo Leopold once said, “To those devoid of imagination a blank

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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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