Category: Blog

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The Problem of Good

This weekend I had the delight of hosting Jeff Munroe at my church. It was great fun for me, this connection of two places I’ve

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Jerry and Betty

Hiking is great but not all hikes are the same. Hiking with the returning swans and eagles in Millennium Park near Grand Rapids, Michigan is

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The Embodied Sermon

Recently my wife and I were among just over 15,000 people in West Michigan who took in one of the six Grand Rapids performances of

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The Right to Earn

If it is spring in the Midwest, it will be windy. Ann Marie Riebe lived in the Great Plains of North Dakota. In the 1930s

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“I Want to See Again”

(Overheard near the outskirts of Jericho.) “What’s going on up there?” “It’s a mob coming this way—a bunch of people I don’t recognize.” “It’s a

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A song without a story

William Jennings Bryan knew how to deliver a speech, a talent he picked it up as a kid and ran with, the youngest man ever

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My Annual Physical

My annual physical is coming up. I’m anticipating the various encouragements and reprimands I might receive from the doctor; my blood pressure is too this

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Will You Help Us?

When the writers or the Board of the Reformed Journal gather, we usually spend a bit of time rehearsing the illustrious and uneven history of

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