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Laura de Jong

A Celebration of Life

They talked about the small gifts Alan would give to people, trinkets he picked up at the dollar store or thrift store. I myself was

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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

The Demon of Fascism

Fascism seems less like a coherent ideology or governing philosophy, and more like an energy, an ethos, a societal temperament.

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David Landegent

Hope-scrolling in Hard Times

It’s wise to avoid trying to figure out whether we are better or worse now. It’s better simply to say that along with all the

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Jared Ayers

Who Taught You?

We’re marked most deeply by the myriad others we encounter at closer range: those people, voices, and experiences that shape who we come to be

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Timothy Van Deelen

Nemesis Bird

Birders speak of “nemesis birds,” birds that one, by rights, should have seen given their efforts and outings, but birds that evade them nonetheless. Often

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Jonathan Hiskes

Young Men and Women Off to War

I’m not sure what our boys took away as they fidgeted beside me. But I wonder if the most important words we read are “we”

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Justin Meyers

Preemptive Love

Christians in the US must recognize that to my Muslim neighbors whether we do or do not support our government’s violent actions is a key