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Chad Pierce

What Happened to the Fish?

The story of the flood is fascinating for many reasons. On the surface, it’s a horrible story. God is so fed up with the sinfulness

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Rebecca Koerselman

How Do You Know AI Didn’t Write This?

There has been much brouhaha about generative AI in education, and particular concerns in higher education. As always, people have lots of opinions, with the

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Rodney Haveman

There Are No Perfect Victims

I sense this demand for perfect victims is an unwanted gift from Christianity to the wider culture. The church teaches that Jesus is sinless, a

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James Vanden Bosch

The Weight of our Neighbor’s Glory

Most things we hear or read stay with us for a moment or two, but some words and phrases and clauses stay with us for

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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

The Kids are Alright. More or Less.

They don’t see church as a value-added to their lives. Their first thoughts are of obligations, constraints, conflict. More in their already hectic schedule.

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Mark Ennis

My 9/11 Grief and Some Hard Questions

Last week, I visited the September 11th Memorial in lower Manhattan, looking for a specific name etched in the plaque memorializing those killed that awful

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Sara Sybesma Tolsma

A God Who Pursues Us

They said they cannot be a part of a church that aligns itself with Israel, a country openly committing genocide in Gaza. They don’t want

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Tom Boogaart

Engaging the Power of Disenchantment

Editors Note: This is the first of three responses to Roger Nelson’s post yesterday on adult children and faith. A number of years ago I

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Roger Nelson

Generation to Generation

I don’t know how to get our children to church, but I know that some sustaining strength is slipping away.

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Katy Sundararajan

Don’t Stop Praying

The sidewalk in front of me proclaims in boldly chalked letters: DON’T STOPPRAYING And right after that: GODHEARS US With my dog, I have walked