Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell
December 20, 2011
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As usual, these December days are zinging by us at twice the speed of other months. No doubt you’re earnestly surfing the internet for gift
A half a century ago, I was a kid in a Sunday school class taught by a man who’d taught those classes longer, maybe, than
I’ll call her “Leila.” That’s not her real name, but given possible security repercussion we’ll leave it at that. She was the first person to
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In the midst of this Advent Season when radio stations and mall Muzak are willing to cut loose with songs that celebrate Jesus as the
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It’s pretty common to hear people, not least Protestants, talk about what they might give up for Lent. Some of them even follow through and