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The Day After

Whatever you are feeling this morning (that is, if you are an American with opinions about yesterday’s election), it seems to me the words of

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Pharaohs & Slaves

It was Election Day, 1996. My father started his day over a cup of coffee with a group of retired men from his church—white, middle

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A Week of Saints

Last night St. Hildegard of Bingen visited Calvin College. She sang, accompanied by a plucked psaltery, or by a handheld harp, or by a fancy

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Some naked fear

 Sort of eerie is what it was. We came up over a hill and found it, just across the gravel from a sprawling field full

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Ties That Bind?

The call came in part way through a three or four-day retreat. Part of the seminary’s January term, the entire first year class had travelled

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Troubling Signs

As we enter the final week before we get through this taut political season, I have a question: Who is responsible for making and distributing

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Some nights…

This is it, boys, this is war – what are we waiting for?Why don’t we break the rules already?I was never one to believe the

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