Category: Blog

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Who’s In & Who’s Out

During seminary, a professor who would later become a mentor and friend, the missional theologian Darrell Guder, taught our class something that that has stayed

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Riches and Racism

Last week I finished reading Jim Freeman’s Rich Thanks to Racism, adding another book to my list of bleak reads on the state of America.

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What if…?

This writing refers to two pieces of legislation recently supported and signed into law by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds. Senate File 538 prohibits medical personnel

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Singing Into Something More

I heard recently about an area church that doesn’t sing. They don’t dislike music. There’s still a small band that plays music throughout the service.

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Apocalyptic Easter

Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughteredTo receive power and wealth and wisdom and mightAnd honor and glory and blessing! -The Revelation to John, 5.12

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Not the Answer to Everything but . . .

Some while ago, not sure when, Facebook started embedding a feature called “Reels” into people’s news feeds.   These are seemingly random video clips usually lasting

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Change of Heart and Mind

Born in 1936 and having grown up in a Christian Reformed Church, I do not recall ever deciding that same sex attraction was wrong. It

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