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Best Names in the Game

Knowing that Shin Soo-Choo is playing the outfield in Cincinnati makes it easier for me gather the strength to face the world each day. Soo-Choo

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orthodox hot dogs

For the past two weeks my family and I have been hanging out in Grand Rapids where I’ve been immersed in a seminar discussing Eastern

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Telling History

On the road yet again this week, this time in St. Louis for a conference on early American history. On the way down we stopped

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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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