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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
Jason Lief
July 19, 2013
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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
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
In recent weeks, I’ve been reading a lot about wisdom, and longing for more of it in my life. Wisdom provides a robust biblical and
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
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
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
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
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
The July issue of the National Geographic magazine has an incredible article about the haymaking practiced in the small villages of the Transylvanian region of