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Less Likeable than Insightful: Schrader’s “First Reformed”

First Reformed presents looks at current social issues through the lens of religion and specifically the eyes of a pastor from a failing Reformed church. To its credit, it attempts to give a well-rounded view of these issues. Pastor Ernst…

Robert Hubbard Northwestern College

Book Reviews Essays

Love and Hate: Christians and Rock Music in the 1960s

As a child of the 80s born to evangelical parents with a tall stack of Christian music on vinyl, I grew up with an odd mix of music. Music from an earlier era of secular styles was called “oldies.” Oldies…

Gregory Jones

Essays

Are We Even Paying Attention?

In late October, a gunman opened fire on a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in United States history. Earlier the same week, a white supremacist killed two black customers at a grocery store…

Mark Almquist-Murray

Poetry

Crevices & Crannies

for the Sons of Korah (Psalm 84) Swallows swoop across the courtyard well above the notice of those alonefacing stone robed in black They flit & fly & loop back disappearing into gaps in the wall well above the reach…

D.S. Martin

As We See It

Lenten Parables

“Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” Luke 9:54 In the passage above, Jesus has just sent his disciples ahead of him to the towns and communities he plans to visit on…

Chris Jacobsen

Essays

Saints and Sinners – Can You Tell Them Apart?

Benedict Joseph Labre was an unemployed transient who begged around Europe for 13 years, eating refuse that other people didn’t want and clothing himself in rags. He was infested with vermin; he smelled bad. Yet fewer than a hundred years…

Roger Karny

Poetry

How Like Manna

Bright May—but Sober, somber, alone. Scored By razored circumstance. Emptied. So retreating To the soothing shade of the sweet gum tree, A few pieces of stale bread in my hand (The meager offering of the poor in spirit). Broken, the…

Joe Sarnowski

Book Reviews

One Muslim’s Journey to Christ

There is no doubt that there is a wave of movements to Christ sweeping across the Islamic world, and this testimony by Abu Atallah with Kent Van Till is witness to that. As this movement grows, it is important that…

Greg Sinclair

Book Reviews

Subtracting from the Noise

In my classroom, a groggy eighth-grade student confesses that he was up until 2 a.m. watching YouTube videos. My seventh-grade son declares his parents “the meanest ever” when we disconnect his gaming device during the school week. My 6-year-old asks…

Dana VanderLugt

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Less Likeable than Insightful: Schrader’s “First Reformed”

Love and Hate: Christians and Rock Music in the 1960s

Are We Even Paying Attention?

Crevices & Crannies

Lenten Parables

Saints and Sinners – Can You Tell Them Apart?

How Like Manna

One Muslim’s Journey to Christ

Subtracting from the Noise

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Love and Hate: Christians and Rock Music in the 1960s

One Muslim’s Journey to Christ

Subtracting from the Noise

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Treating a Literary Icon with Dignity

Becoming a Church that Learns

Bringing Balance to the Missional Church Movement

Finding a Deeper Piety in the Lord’s Supper

Abraham Kuyper and the Immigration Debate

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