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Tom Boogaart

Wandering in a Cosmic Wilderness Part 2: Glimmerings of God

The Reformed belief in the complementarity of the books of revelation offers a third way. It invites believers to open their hearts and search for the correspondence between the biblical and scientific cosmologies with the hope that the Spirit will superintend such a search and inspire a theology for these difficult times, one that will help believers experience a present and caring God in an immense cosmos and faltering planet and empower them to act accordingly.

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David Landegent

I Don’t Want to Be a Jerk

I preached on LGBTQ issues four times in forty years, once in each church I served. I tried to model how to talk about these

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Doug Einfeld

The Cost of Christian Cultural Warfare

Christian nationalist and culture-war ideologies offer what may sound like an appealing pathway forward. The call to “take back our country” and win the culture

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Travis West

The Sabbath Way: Time is Love

The Sabbath invites us to get clear about what our values are in relation to time, so that when we feel the tug between fast

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Zachary K. Pearce

Name(s), Faith, and Prayer

One night, as my grandfather lay there, body-quaking, he suddenly felt a warm sensation throughout his body. He felt drawn to the light, the same

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Mark Hiskes

A Star to Guide Us

What I remember most about Emese, though, was her insistence that our book club read the “greatest book” she’d ever read, The Little Prince. After

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Rowland Van Es, Jr.

The Fox vs. the Hen

We thought it would never happen here, but now it is. This is not the way life is supposed to be. Deep down we know

Tami Zietse

A Night with the Worms

A spring evening, it began to rain. It was the soft rain that lulls one to sleep at night, the kind of rain that reminds

Meg Jenista

Hope’s Two Daughters

It is this very Christian habit of eschatological hope that grants us the temporal foolishness to work for more justice, more flourishing-peace even now, before

Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

Young Love, Big Yes!

Did young Christians in the 1980s marry early because they wanted to have sex within the bounds of marriage? Absolutely!

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Jill Risner

The Wise Leader

In this book, Uli Chi gives us a glimpse of what makes a person a wise leader and draws from his own experiences as a

Dana Vanderlugt

Small Things Like These

This is not a happy story, per se, but a good one. A story that reminds me that those quiet murmurings of our hearts, what

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Janet Ruth Heller

Annunciation

After Fred broke up with me,I returned to graduate schooland immersed myself in six classes,an overload, trying to heal. One sunny autumn day,I sat alone

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Joshua Patch

Malchus

There are at least two Machuses in heaven. Malchus according to LUke has at least two ears but no name …

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Paul J. Willis

Michigan Spring

First leaves of trout lily among the roots of a bare beech tree …

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Caroline Liberatore

Manual Labor

Against the turnings of solstice hope sprouts eternal …

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Rose Postma

“Annunication” by Janet Heller

In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the Poetry Edition, Rose Postma talks with Janet Ruth Heller about her poem “Annunication.” Heller is the

Podcast
Rose Postma

“Malchus” by Joshua Patch

In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma talks with Joshua Patch about his poem “Malchus.” Patch is a teacher

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Rose Postma

“Michigan Spring” by Paul J. Willis

In this episode of the poetry edition of the Reformed Journal Podcast, Rose Postma interviews Paul J. Willis about his poem “Michigan Spring.” Paul is

Podcast
Rose Postma

“Manual Labor” by Caroline Liberatore

In this episode of the Reformed Journal Podcast, the poetry edition, Rose Postma talks with Caroline Liberatore about her poem “Manual Labor.” Liberatore is a