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Harlan Van Oort

96 Days Until Spring Training*

Every move they make is evaluated. Every at bat, every pitch, every error is computerized. Every player is rated by a sophisticated system. All that

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Marilyn McEntyre

An Old Book for a New Moment

Hawthorne’s heterodox hermeneutic rested on the premise that we are always being addressed. Invited. Summoned. Warned.

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Kerin Beauchamp

Listen, We’re All Good People Here

Arendt challenges the notion of some great evil other. Instead it says everyday ordinary people are capable of committing unthinkable atrocities.

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Gretchen Schoon Tanis

In Thankfulness for All-Saints Day

I couldn’t quite tell, and that was frustrating for me! Hearing him speak, I couldn’t quite tell if he was German or if he was

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Jeff Munroe

It Was Fifteen Years Ago Today

In a 2011 planning session, Phil Tanis said an online presence was paramount, and suggested starting a daily blog.

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James Bratt

Varia Hungariana

Why did Calvinism thrive in Hungary? Because of the eternal law of politics: the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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Jennifer L. Holberg

Seasonal Stretching

It’s been such a gorgeous autumn this year here in West Michigan, temperate and luminous and providing every excuse to escape outdoors. There’s never a

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Phil Tanis

Show Me the Money

The sheer torrent of political advertising hitting us here is stunning. Little of it is positive. Even less of it is fully true.

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Scott Hoezee

Get Over Yourselves

There may have been a significant issue at stake in all this. But who of us would be surprised were we to discover one day