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Can Churches Split?

The question—can churches split?—reminds me of the bromide attributed to Samuel Clemens.            Do you believe in infant baptism?           Believe in it?  Hell, I’ve seen

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Thanks be to dog.

Yesterday I did something I hadn’t done in five years. I was pouring a bowl of cereal and a piece fell on the kitchen floor

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Change and the Long View

  “So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is

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Vampire Weekend

Yesterday, as I was in the air, flying from New York City to Michigan, the new Vampire Weekend song was on repeat. Have you heard

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Wonders

Growing up in the CRC there were certain hymns we’d sing from the old blue Psalter Hymnal that contained lines that always stuck with me.  

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inefficiency

The calendar says June so I guess summer is upon us. It just doesn’t feel like summer in Iowa; the high temperature’s been in the

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