Category: Blog

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The Beauty of New Perspectives

Every now and then, we get to be a part of bright, mysterious moments where unexpected life-threads twist together. I recently had an afternoon that

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Mounjaro and Me

I am guessing that not a lot of RJ readers have heard of something named Mounjaro.  But thanks to heavy advertising on TV probably most

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Used Furniture Ecumenism

Much of what I know about ecumenism I learned in a used furniture store. My first pastoral call was to a Reformed Church in America

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Confessional

What most people mean by the word “confessional” is a booth in a church where you tell your sins to the priest. Scholars use the

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Telling the Wiseman Story

For some time now, I’ve been unable to determine what to do with the Wiseman story. I ran into it when I read the name

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Black Flag

A habitual early-riser, I often don’t sleep well in hotels, so I was up early doomscrolling pre-dawn. Given time zone differences, the European climate scientists

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A Birthday Wish

It’s midpoint in the Calvin semester, and students (and let’s be honest, the faculty, too) are dragging themselves towards fall break. The weather is colder.

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Driestarren — Three Stars

No one has ever called me a Kuyperian, and I’m okay with that. Then Kuyper scholar par excellence and RJ blogger, Jim Bratt, mentioned Kuyper’s driestarren

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