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May 19, 2015
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Poetic Youth Ministry: Learning to Love Young People by Letting Them Go (Excerpt)

by Jason Lief
…unction of global technocapitalism in Western society in order to help the community become aware of the processes, techniques, and practices at work in the lives of young people. This helps the Christian community better understand how the global capitalist paradigm is able to co-opt the processes and practices of the church, which contributes to young people exchanging Christianity belief for the secularized religion of global technocapitalism….
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March 14, 2016
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When We Disagree

by Charles Veenstra
…ause we cannot separate the issue from the person. Then our disagreement becomes a complaint that we voice to others rather than the person we need to confront. And that is gossip. Somehow we do not see conflict as having value. Many of my students report that they hate conflict but also that they do indeed gossip. Notice that giving negative criticism is one of the easiest things to do. It is easier to attack than to defend. It is a way of keepin…
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March 25, 2015
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My Immigration Story

by Mark Verbruggen
…res patience and a willingness to be subjected to finger printing, medical exams, intrusive questions, rejection, and so forth. It is easy to succumb to anger and frustration and many times this is what I felt. The whole system seems designed to frustrate you to the point that you quit and leave. I wonder how many do leave or quit. In the end, I can’t help but think how much harder it would be to go through all this and not speak English or have a…
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November 10, 2015
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Playing God

by Jeff Ploegstra
…isms. Horizontal gene transfer is a well-documented phenomenon. It is most common among bacteria, but examples are found between plants and bacteria, protists and insects, and plants and insects. Often this occurs in situations where the two organisms live together in a close symbiotic relationship.1 In many respects, these organisms together represent a genetic system, and it doesn’t matter which organism has the genes. There is a whole discussio…
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May 18, 2016
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A Letter from the Frontier

by Gretchen Schoon Tanis
…to play off your “here in Hannover”) I suspect the cultural Christian is becoming a stronger component of American life. The danger is that this cultural aspect then, is not living, changing expression, but based on tradition. That leaves little room to engage in conversation about how a Christian minister, for example, might want to discuss faith and church in response to a request for baptism. What many are asking for is a cultural moment, not a…
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August 18, 2016
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Nature or Nurture: Leadership as a Learned Trait vs. Leadership Inheritance

by Eric Forseth
…entor) Others Nouwen astutely emphasized that leaders are shepherds within community and leadership is a “communal experience and a mutual experience that involves confession and forgiveness.”16 Practice both. Be Civil Richard Mouw challenges leaders to ‘initiate divine character’ by demonstrating civility in the public square. Mouw asserts the living out of civility is by demonstrating kindness and gentleness. 17 Be Calm Taking time can improve t…
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June 8, 2015
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Is Technology Bringing Us Together or Pushing Us Farther Apart?

by Liz Moss
…making-us.html Dave Mulder Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains includes some data on this, but I believe there is some controversy about several of the studies he cites. Here’s the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Shallows-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750 Liz Moss This is a great question, Scott. We are actually working on another article to answer your question. We’ll let you know when we publish i…
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September 15, 2014
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by In All Things
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April 18, 2018
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Christian Wisdom on Technology Use and Parenting

by Dawn Berkelaar
…at have proved helpful for us, even though we sometimes chafe at them. For example: – We limit what comes into our home by using a service that filters internet content and blocks pornography and other offensive materials.5 – We turn our internet off at night. Once the power bar stops glowing, no more decisions need be made; there will be no more notifications, and no temptation to check e-mail or social media just once more before bed. – We leave…
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January 28, 2016
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Gun Politics Aren’t About Guns

by Donald Roth
…ry for decades. Finally, while many metropolitan areas have homicide rates comparable to violence-plagued countries like Mexico, more rural regions like Iowa have homicide rates comparable to the idealized European averages.1 At the same time, the political messages sent by citing some of these statistics are more unambiguous, and the same message often plays totally differently to each side. The example of Australia, mentioned earlier, plays to o…
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April 22, 2020
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Curbing Climate Change

by Lindsay Mouw
…rs cannot be left as a poignant, momentary imploration. These stories must compel comprehensive, urgent action to solve the climate crisis and provide justice for those who are losing everything. As Christians, personal and behavioral action is an integral aspect of our faith. By making sustainable choices, we are choosing to fulfill the Genesis 2:15 mandate to steward creation by working it and caring for it. To work suggests that we should use t…
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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
…es to create positive change on a more collective, systemic level, so that solutions become accessible for everyone? “Join together with movements big enough to matter.” Bill McKibben 6) Act with others: Read a book or watch a documentary—and also talk about it with friends. Walk or bike to work—and also join advocates for better mobility infrastructure where you live. Maybe you’re looking into getting rooftop solar—get involved in efforts to brin…
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October 21, 2014
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Seek Justice, Encourage the Oppressed

by Abby Foreman
…gly turning to food pantries to feed their families. To consider different solutions, to advocate for solutions that work to promote a flourishing community where no one needs to use a food pantry, where people are engaged in meaningful, honoring work which allows them to provide for their families. Our work in both justice and charity can bring about redemptive glimpses, or in-breakings, of what will be when Christ returns. Wolterstorff, Nicholas…
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April 19, 2023
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A New Resolution: A Review of Resolved

by Bruce Kuiper, Donald Roth
…ms of DCI, and then in turn shows how such objections can be answered. For example, the first one raised is a pretty common concern of how we already have too much argument in today’s society, and thus any proposal like DCI to increase such argument should be disregarded. There’s a hint of a straw man argument in some of his lines of reasoning in this chapter, but in general the issues raised are legitimate, and the solutions plausible. One area t…
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January 9, 2015
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Top Webpages to Follow in 2015

by Liz Moss
…. Featuring different question or topics each week, Q provides educational materials and thought provoking topics to stimulate the mind and to work to expand the good of all within the communities we live. Perspectives Journal With a newly re-vamped webpage, Perspectives Journal’s purpose is to express the Reformed faith theologically; to engage issues that Reformed Christians meet in personal, ecclesiastical, and societal life; and thus to contri…
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December 30, 2015
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Top 10 Websites to Watch in 2016

by Liz Moss
…features resources for a well-rounded conversation. SharedJustice.org is a community of writers and readers dedicated to pursuing these questions: What does it mean to do politics justly? And what does public justice mean for me? “An online publication written by and for millennials from all walks of life, covers today’s most pressing public justice issues.” Q Ideas works to introduce topics that fall into the board categories of culture, future,…
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August 4, 2020
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Kinds of Science and Exploring the Past

by Channon Visscher
…ote that 1 parsec (pc) = 3.26 light-years = 19 trillion miles. Fourth, the combined and complementary roles of different scientific approaches also help illustrate that the boundaries between observational, experimental, and historical science are often fuzzy or arbitrary, and in practice scientist typically don’t articulate “kinds” or distinctions between them. This is especially evident in fields such as astronomy (see figure above) where any di…
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January 3, 2023
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The Power of Pitching a Tent

by Anna Mooers
…likely because they “did” nothing, and yet something about their presence communicated to you that you matter.  Communicating presence and pitching the tent does take work, though it requires you to do nothing. It takes work to embody humility; to listen without thinking about what you might say next, to avoid giving advice, and to be okay with silence. It takes work to do nothing. “Communicating presence and pitching the tent does take work, tho…
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May 12, 2015
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I Served in the U.S. Navy

by Ted De Hoogh
…s finding out about young men from my hometown who had lost their lives in combat in Vietnam. What is one thing you’d like non-military people to know about serving in the military? I believe that experiencing the discipline of military training is of great value. You learn self-reliance, teamwork, survival, camaraderie, etc. It helps you put in perspective what things are really important in life, and what things you can do without. How have you…
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March 26, 2018
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Keeping the Faith

by Josh Larsen
…apprentice must give up control. (Recall Luke wearing those blinders while training in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, an image that The Last Jedi nods to near its end.) The term “faithful presence” comes from James Davison Hunter’s influential To Change the World. More pertinent to The Last Jedi, however, is a critique of that book by Greg Forster, a visiting assistant professor of faith and culture at Trinity International University. Forste…
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February 12, 2019
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A New Asceticism: Learning to be Grateful

by Chandra Crane
…ty as a virtue. But the rise of minimalistic culture also raises important questions, especially for Christians: Is the minimalist movement disingenuous? Would Christ, in his marginalized state, have identified with minimalism? Has minimalism become an idol? As we savvy capitalists obsess over having less stuff, are we not still consumed by the thought of said stuff, mesmerized by the stark spaces which now serve as empty shrines to remind us of h…
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May 11, 2016
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Force of Habit

by Dawn Berkelaar
…ecomes established it requires less and less willpower. The goal of both resolutions and habits is behavior change. But many resolutions include a short-term goal and have an ‘all or nothing’ feel about them—either you follow through or you don’t. By contrast, habits can be a means to step-by-step, long-term change. Gretchen Rubin’s book Better than Before is all about habits. Early in her book, Rubin says that up to 40% of our daily actions are t…
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July 19, 2016
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Consumerism and the Church

by Donald Roth
…novelty, and, for a church that views worship as a primarily performative exercise, novelty becomes a key attribute of sincerity, thus allowing consumerism an easy avenue to seduce and subvert God’s people. Means Have Ends, and Ends Invite Means Taking this further, the concern is that using the modes of consumerism can subtly shift the church off track toward a false gospel. It’s not a wholesale heresy, but instead a shifting of degrees that mov…
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May 23, 2019
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My Grandfather’s Hands: A Review of Heartland

by Chelsea Maxwell
…—even hard manual labor—is good. Eloquently, she said, “Work can be a true communion with resources, materials, other people” (43). In her writing, she holds this truth in partnership with the truth that the American economy has undervalued certain types of work, including the work of her family and my grandfather. Smarsh laments, The countryside is no more our nation’s heart than are its cities, and rural people aren’t more noble and dignified fo…
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July 24, 2018
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The Price of Gopher Wood

by Calvin DeWitt
…ns 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 Creator of heaven and earth. Noah would spare no expense of time, effort, or reputation to follow God’s request to save the lineages of God’s creatures. More than that, Noah would move b…
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