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September 27, 2016
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Pastoral Reflections on the Election Cycle

by Mark Verbruggen
…es will receive. Mark Jason Lief You forgot about this party, Tom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79KzZ0YqLvo Marion D.+Van+Soelen Thank you Mark for drawing us to the real Kingdom and the King of kings! Tom While it’s a long shot, for sure, there is a viable path to the White House for Johnson & Weld. If too many people reject that notion, then it becomes self-fulfilling. In other words, the only reason that 3rd party candidates can’t win is bec…
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January 30, 2020
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The Death of Kobe Bryant: Fallen Icons and Heart of Popular Culture

by Justin Bailey
…enings in which the hope of the gospel can be felt. Moments of clarity can pass quickly. Analysts will quickly resume shouting over each other about the latest trivial debate. Celebrities will continue to be celebrities. Life will go on. But, this cultural moment gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect. It allows us to consider the hopes and fears that linger just beneath the surface of the lament for Kobe. Tragedy has a way of stripping awa…
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September 3, 2021
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Culture

A Valley Called Weeping

by Caleb Schut
…and orphanage in Uganda. He began our conversation with a line that has become a common refrain of his, “We would like to praise God, because we are all alive here.” He says it whimsically, but not facetiously. It isn’t a throwaway cliché for him. To be alive is a gift from God. In the valley of weeping, this is foundational. Is there anything more fundamental than your present suffering? Is there anything beyond the pain and exhaustion of this p…
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May 31, 2023
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Hope, Action, and Neighbor Love: The Planet and Christian Discipleship

by Caleb Schut, Nate Rauh-Bieri
…know what actions each of us can take to love our world and neighbors more completely. It will cost all of us something, but it has already cost some people everything. May we embrace hope as we actively seek to love our neighbors and care for our environment.  Dig Deeper Consider the following titles for your continued learning:  Following Jesus in a Warming World by Kyle Meyaard-Schaap  Nature documentary series by Sir David Attenborough: A Life…
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October 29, 2014
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Where Questions Can Lead

by Rikk E. Watts
…and Gave Rise to the Modern World.” This lecture will be in Dordt College’s Science and Technology Center (Room 1606) at 7:30 pm. First Mondays Speakers Series is free and open to the public. If you live in the area, we’d love to have you join us at both events.  …
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September 21, 2015
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The Richness of Building Character in College Athletics

by Craig Heynen
…cted. Athletes must learn that to succeed there is a necessary level of discomfort. Mental toughness and focus can also include the balancing of athletics along with other responsibilities in life. These characteristics are great assets for athletes as they become parents, employees, caregivers, church members, and in any other life role they acquire requiring perseverance. For many athletes, the connection between discipline and their spiritual w…
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October 29, 2014
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Education as Formation

by Dave Mulder
…are to love God with our whole heart and soul and mind, and that we are to pass along the Truth to the next generation.4 The implication is that this sort of education is about a way of living, and not just about “knowing.” While increasing knowledge is certainly a part of what it means to become educated, a biblical view of teaching and learning is so much more than just enlightening the mind. Parker Palmer says, “We teach who we are.”5 For Chris…
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January 7, 2016
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35 Million Untold Stories

by Carlye Gomes
…nd eyes. William Wilberforce was an abolitionist in the 1700’s and 1800’s, passionate about freedom for those enslaved and a leader in abolitionist movements. He warned us that “you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know.”1 Many of us will never knowingly come face-to-face with prostitution, and admittedly, that can make it hard to be passionate. Perhaps, though, sex trafficking is closer than we realiz…
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January 10, 2019
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Praying and Acting Through Persecution: A Review of Under Caesar’s Sword

by Charles Veenstra
…ows that Christians all over the world are creative in challenging the injustice of persecution through both action and prayer. https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution  ↩…
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April 22, 2022
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Christians and Climate Change

by Dave Schelhaas
…ophy. That sort of thinking can be countered by scripture—see the Romans 8 passage cited above3. Perhaps our preachers and Bible study leaders and catechism teachers must do a better job of instructing in a theology of creation care. Most young people (and old) have little or no understanding that they are called to be Earthkeepers.  To me, it seems clear that God loves this world and has charged us with the care of it. Creation waits with eager a…
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October 17, 2018
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Not Masters but Stewards of the Earth

by Dave Schelhaas
…energy and desperately need economic growth to rise out of poverty and overcome its miseries.” The Cornwall Alliance is so committed to dominion and development that they believe wildness and wilderness to be undesirable. Subduing and cultivating, they say, should always be the goal. For example, one of the stated principles in the Cornwall Alliance website reads as follows: “We deny that godly human dominion entails humans being servants rather t…
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April 28, 2017
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Poetry, Madness, and a Cat Named Jeoffry

by Aleisa Dornbierer-Schat
…, or the pain of loneliness. It can make us more grateful people, and more compassionate. To borrow the words of poet Naomi Shihab Nye, it provides us a way of being “continually restored to the miracle of ordinary life.” I’m making ambitious claims for a genre that almost no one reads (Wisława Szymborska, in her poem “Some People Like Poetry,” puts the number at “something like two per thousand,” and it’s a commonplace among poets that the most d…
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March 22, 2022
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Deep Faith: A Review of Early North African Christianity 

by David Moser
…same.   “As Eastman reminds us, ancient African Christians are part of the communion of saints, those who are ‘in Christ.’” Part four examines the Donatist Controversy, one of the worst schisms of the ancient church. As many bishops and pastors handed over their books to the Romans to avoid persecution, their legitimacy to administer the sacraments and preach was called into question. The Donatists held that bishops and pastors who handed the book…
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June 28, 2017
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If Philando Castile Was a Threat, Then Black People Are Never Safe

by Jemar Tisby
…ose who murder have the power. In the America, the criminal justice system offers no comfort for black people; it promises only tears. There is a bit of comfort in acknowledging life as it really is. If anyone should be alive today, it is Philando Castile. He did everything white society tells black people to do. He volunteered the information that he legally possessed a gun. He didn’t reach for the gun. Why would he announce he had a weapon if he…
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June 17, 2017
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Devotions

The Idol of Tradition

by Eric Forseth
…us Christ and fellowship with him. Amen. Patterson & Kelley, New Testament Commentary. Holman Publishing: Nashville, Tennessee, 2011, pp. 102-103. ↩ Isaiah 29:13 ↩ Exodus 20:12 ↩ Exodus 21:17 ↩ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “The Cost of Discipleship,” Callings (Edited by William Placher). Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2005, p. 392. ↩ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, “The Cost of Discipleship,” Callings (Edited by William Placher). Eerdmans Publishing, G…
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July 24, 2018
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The Price of Gopher Wood

by Calvin DeWitt
…nction. God asked Noah to build a large boat out of gopher wood at a great cost of time, energy, and materials to save not only himself and his family but also the other creatures. Concerns about time or money apparently were not raised by Noah and neither were questions about the significance or worthiness of each species. Noah did as the Lord commanded him. Noah responded faithfully. Faith-fully! What would Noah do? Noah would be faithful to the…
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September 14, 2016
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How Teaching Has Changed in the Last 36 Years

by Ed Starkenburg
…degree in elementary education. At that time, you had required courses to pass along with successful completion of 12 weeks of student teaching. I often tell my students today that in those “good old days,” almost anyone could be a teacher because all you had to do was pass the courses and endure your student teaching. We relied on actual teaching experience to weed out the people who simply weren’t cut out for the profession. Today my students s…
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January 13, 2022
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The Push of a Button: Replacing Meaningful Interactions

by Kevin Timmer
…were created to be. Properly ordered love is not simply about our lives becoming better; it is about being able to become whole.” 2 We are created to make choices that reflect God’s love to others, to bear His image after the example of His perfect image bearer, Jesus Christ (Col 1:15). Brown puts it this way: “The more we are like Christ, the more we fulfill our original design—the ‘perfect version of ourselves.’” 3 Therefore, in the pattern of…
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June 15, 2023
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For the ‘gram: A Review of Share

by Rylan Brue
… To supplement this wide variety of recipes, Santos also provides a useful guide to stocking your pantry in ways that opens up possibilities for creative and improvisational meal-making. “The recipes are delightfully diverse…” What I didn’t find useful—and here’s where Postman gets his say—is Share’s format as a cookbook. To be sure, the book is aesthetically pleasing. Accompanying the recipes are large full-page photographs with black backgrounds…
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February 10, 2018
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iAt Book Club: “How to Think” Round Table

by Erin Olson
…see the times in which those categories have broken down and need to be reexamined—this is when lumping becomes problematic. Jacobs argues that perhaps then we should switch to splitting—creating new categories—rather than just continuing to blindly add individuals to old ones. This is where thinking comes in. We need to be consistently thinking in order to assess the categories in which we place people, and we should always be willing to take th…
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April 15, 2016
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Intentional Living

by
…ed you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” This passage opens with two imperatives: “go” and “make.” Jesus is commanding us to be intentional, deliberate, and purposeful in our relationships. We can only follow Jesus’ teaching in this passage if we are the ones who choose to go, who choose to bring Christ to the lost, who choose to be Jesus to a broken world, and who choose to make this type of relational investment. The…
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September 6, 2022
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Developing a Public Justice Perspective

by Lexi Schnaser
…s not give only one answer to a problem. Addressing food insecurity in one community may look a lot different than in a community across the country.  God has given both government and civil society an important call to promote human flourishing. As politics and the world are ever-changing, the ways we fulfill our responsibilities may look different. Throughout my internship at CPJ, I spent a lot of time reading and listening to the stories of peo…
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September 7, 2017
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DACA: Mirror to the Church

by Myles Werntz
Scott Pryor Thanks for the thoughtful comments about DACA. Much of what comes from the Evangelical Left–on this issue–is sentimental special pleading. Some–a relatively few, I think–on the Evangelical Right, may subscribe to a a nationalized/racialized view of the Church. On the one hand, the multi-ethnic, welcoming understanding of the Church is a baseline of orthodox Christian understanding of the nature and extent of Christ’s work of redem…
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February 25, 2021
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Apocalypse Now, Then, and Forever: A Review of A Children’s Bible

by Myles Werntz
…d into the disquieting and the downright terrifying: beware the Scriptures coming alive, for they just might. In Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible, we enter into a stultifying scene, in which multiple families have taken their children away for the summer to vacation in an unnamed coastal town. From the onset, the setting is already broken: the bourgeoise parents have largely left their kids to their own devices as they indulge in endless sexual e…
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October 26, 2021
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The Bottom Line: A Christian Perspective on Engineering

by Justin Vander Werff, Sam Walhof
…nt-engineering consultants for a local electrical engineering design-build company, Interstates, based in Sioux Center. This type of summer experience we have coined as an “externship,” because while the experience is similar to an engineering internship, the students actually bring their own outside, external knowledge (and the faculty advisor’s experience) into the work to provide valuable consulting expertise to the company. At the end of the e…
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