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The Nation of No-Can-Do

­­That would be the United States. The good-ol’ USA. The young nation born to offer (so says its Great Seal) a new order of the

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St. Freddie of Rupert

We’re in the middle of our January interim term here at Calvin College, an intensive three week session when students typically take just one course.

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Should Congregations Tithe?

“I chose to come to this church because it was known to give fifty percent to missions.”  The speaker was an elderly man in my

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Little children to lead us

Today marks a month since the school shooting in Newtown. The media have moved on, of course, and discussions continue about what changes can or

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House Blessing

My guess: 1971, when people placed family members in glaring sunlight to take a picture, resulting in a shadow of the photographer in the lower

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River Vision

  It wasnt’ deja vu exactly.  I know that phenomenon, the distinct feeling that time and place is being strangely replicated; you’re somehow sure you stood in

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Washed in His Blood

Peter TeWinkle is substituting for Thomas Goodhart who unfortunately is responding to a case of gun violence within his own community this week. A husband

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