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God With Us

A new year has dawned. Advent and Christmas services are over, presents have been opened, the tree is at least mostly put away, and we

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Communion in Red

As I help uncover the communion elements, I see a flash of red out of the corner of my eye. I am new to serving

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On Legalized Gambling

Who would have expected that a lesson in promoting public morality would come to us from Russia, the heart of what the great communicator, Ronald

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Why Not Belhar?

Over the past two years I have struggled a great deal whether to support the adoption of the Belhar Confession or not. Part of me

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Joyful Theology

A few weeks ago the third volume of the Collected Works of A.A. van Ruler arrived in my mailbox. It was an important moment for

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What the Millennialists Have Right

Back in the days when theologians in the world of conservative Protestantism got excited about the differences among premillennialists, postmillenialists, and amillennialists, it was not

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The Sorcerer’s Smile

Your great-grandma says I talk like an old preacher, which is to say, too much. Maybe she’s right. She’s right about a lot of things.

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