Tag: Kristin Kobes DuMez

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You Are Not Alone

We had become good friends and loved to talk and argue about lots of ideas, including politics, ethics, and morality. But I noticed he sidestepped

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The Best Story Wins

“There’s a tremendous amount of rot that’s in our agencies and institutions—Calvin University and Seminary. That needs to be cleaned out.” Those are the words

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The Gospel of Gomer

I saw a meme on Facebook the other day in reference to the invasion of Ukraine that said, “This is what you get when you

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January 6

On January 6, 2021, I sat in my COVID home office and watched the insurrection in real time. I had two livestreams open on my

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The Unsexiest Virtue

One evening some time ago, my wife Monica and I were channel-surfing and wound up watching the movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping — a

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White Evangelical Racism

I recently finished Anthea Butler’s new book White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. It offers a short and accessible, yet powerful, overview

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The Dutch and John Wayne

The United States Post Office in Pella, Iowa is a little jewel. The small but stately red brick colonial structure sits just off the town

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My Mom, Fear, and John Wayne

Don’t try to figure out your own life. That’s too much. The most we can hope for is to try to figure out our parents.

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