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by Debra L. Freeberg What happens at the end of life to the stored treasures of knowledge and memory? To the books of language fruit dripping with meaning, consequence, and flavor. To the closely held memories of touch and kiss…

Debra Freeberg Calvin College

Inside Out

Dusty Endings

Though Easter was a huge deal in my family, we never did Ash Wednesday when I was growing up. No service, no imposition of ashes. And although my parents adored the Advent season (during which we had many family traditions,…

Jennifer L. Holberg

Poetry

The Return of the Prodigal

after Henri Nouwen’s studyof Rembrandt’s paintingof Christ’s parable I look at the handsembracing clutching caressing the hands I can only seebecause Rembrandt saw them for me the hands as seenin the light Nouwen shone on themhis power of suggestion …

D.S. Martin

Book Reviews

Building a Home for Learning

In my work with preservice teachers and in conversations with colleagues at Hope College, I frequently engage in questions of what it means to integrate faith and learning. Is it a matter of teaching Christian perspectives and ideas in a…

Deborah Van Duinen Hope College

Book Reviews

Art as Concrete Theology

For anyone familiar with the interdisciplinary conversation in theology and the arts, Jeremy Begbie’s name is well known. Begbie has been arguing for music – and arts more broadly – as sites for serious theological engagement for some time (his…

Adam Perez

Essays

A Drink of Water: Flint, Michigan, 2014–2018

I assure you that anyone who gives you a drink of water because you belong to me will certainly receive a reward.Mark 9:41 The facts of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, are well known. Most important, it was caused…

John D. Cox

Essays

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

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Refracted

Dusty Endings

The Return of the Prodigal

Building a Home for Learning

Art as Concrete Theology

A Drink of Water: Flint, Michigan, 2014–2018

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

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

Are We Even Paying Attention?

Book Reviews

Building a Home for Learning

Art as Concrete Theology

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

One Muslim’s Journey to Christ

Subtracting from the Noise

Learning to See Life’s Ecstatic Dance

Treating a Literary Icon with Dignity

Becoming a Church that Learns

Bringing Balance to the Missional Church Movement

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