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Rugby player reading the Bible.
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Jared Ayers

Father Abraham

Abraham, paragon of biblical faith, is complicated, contradictory, both faithful and deeply flawed.

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Kathryn Vilela

Movement for Life

Our faith’s preferred metaphors tend to emphasize motionlessness as the goal state.

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Kevin Eastway

Money Among Friends

Plenty is quieter than abundance. It does not promise everyone will have everything they want or that hardship will disappear. Plenty asks whether what God

Child reading a book in bed.
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Sara Sybesma Tolsma

Reading Our Way to Neighbor-Love

When we open a book, we must grant the author and their created world the status of a neighbor. We treat them with hospitality. We

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Rebecca Jordan Heys

To Seize and to Receive

It starts as early as playground spats about who gets the best toy. It continues through a lifetime of temptation to covet any number of

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Scott Hoezee

Gain and Loss and Garbage (and Worse)

Few, if any, amassed the good works that Saul had deposited into his spiritual bank account.“ Go ahead,” Saul could have said, “just try to

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David Landegent

Remembering the Future

This past summer, we visited some close friends. Recently, they had shared that the wife had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and so we especially wanted

Red tape across woman's mouth
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Dana VanderLugt

Sitting with a Stutterer

I dream of being as eloquent in my mouth as I am in my head. I dream of seeing a word on paper and making

Young woman screaming.
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Kathryn Schoon-Tanis

We Are Not Okay

The point is to stop pretending that what is broken is whole and to stop blessing as Christian what is cruel, calling righteous what is

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Chad Pierce

Resurrection in Berlin

Hours of weight lifting and physical therapy have gotten me to a point that I can walk with little pain. Steps are still hard and

Fireflies in a forest.
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James Gould

Days of Remembrance, Days of Sorrow

Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. In the U.S., it is Indigenous People’s Day. Dual citizenship makes the day doubly conflicted for me. So does