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Running to Stand Still

And so she woke upWoke up from where she was lying stillSaid, “I gotta do somethingAbout where we’re going” You gotta cry without weepingTalk without

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Quotidian Mysteries

Two weeks ago author Kathleen Norris presented the James I. Cook lecture in Christianity and Literature at Western Theological Seminary. For those unfamiliar with her

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Common Grace and Race

Jennifer L. Holberg is on spring break this week. In her spot today is a guest post from Daniel José Camacho. Daniel is a seminarian hailing

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Fred Phelps Should Go to Hell?

Fred Phelps, the controversial founder of Westboro Baptist Church, died last week. If you want to know more about Fred, you’ll have to read elsewhere.

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Blue Highways

It’s not insignificant. Created in the late ’20s, during the heyday of such memorials, Bryant Baker’s Pioneer Woman stands formidably just off one of Ponca City’s main

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Lenten Lengthening

Tom is away this week attending the Steering Committee of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. In his place we introduce the Rev. Leah Ennis, an RCA

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Is Happiness Dull?

This past Sunday in the “Bookends” back page column of the New York Times Book Review, writers Leslie Jamison and Adam Kirsch pondered some of

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