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“A Harsh World”

I’ve come rather late to this whole Downton Abbey phenomena, only recently having seen any of the show. At the urging of one of my

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Solitaire Clarity

In a couple of months’ time the hit show “The Office” will be no more in terms of new episodes but it will doubtless live

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Parenting Shrek Style

We were sitting at the table the other night eating supper when my son blurts out, “My friends and I were talking about sex today.”

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The Nation of No-Can-Do

­­That would be the United States. The good-ol’ USA. The young nation born to offer (so says its Great Seal) a new order of the

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St. Freddie of Rupert

We’re in the middle of our January interim term here at Calvin College, an intensive three week session when students typically take just one course.

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Should Congregations Tithe?

“I chose to come to this church because it was known to give fifty percent to missions.”  The speaker was an elderly man in my

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