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The NFL is Rigged — And Other Lies

I shouldn’t have been surprised—but I still was—when I started hearing people claiming the National Football League is “rigged.” We are less than a week

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Flooded with Memories

I recently returned to Grand Rapids, my hometown, to visit my family. I love walking the streets of my childhood when I visit. I walk

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A Tale of Two Sisters

A few months ago, I listened to Jill Dillard’s memoir Counting the Cost, and this month I followed it up with her sister Jinger Vuolo’s

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Naming My Sin “On the Ones”

Steve and I have been friends for over 50 years. We shared many childhood experiences—youth football, Mackinaw Island with the Boy Scouts, the grade-school bus,

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Preaching Wisdom from The Boss

A Conversation With The Boss I listened a bit ago to a conversation between two musical legends. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, band leader and drummer of

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What’s Good?

In the movie Apollo 13, not long after an oxygen tank had exploded on the spacecraft, the computers at Mission Control in Houston were flashing

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Yell at Servants for Exercise

The cardiologist had been practicing for decades, and she was both knowledgeable and clear in her explanations. She said that many people have heart valves

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A Photographer of Startling Power

For these Sunday posts in January, I want to listen to how people with immigration or refugee experiences find sustenance and purpose in difficult times.

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