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August 18, 2015
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Spotlights

Back to School

by Gwen Marra
…they’re not starving when they get home. Talk to your children about the upcoming year. Listen to how they are feeling. Are they excited about the new school year? Are they nervous about a new teacher or friends in their class? If so, visit school during an Open House night, or if there is not a scheduled visiting time, ask the school or teacher when it would be convenient to stop by. Arrange for your child to have a play date with some children t…
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January 26, 2021
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Essays

The Truth of Peace in Christ

by Regina Chow Trammel
…written with Zondervan Publishers, launching in September 2021. In this upcoming book, I define Christian mindfulness as “making time to turn our whole attention to God so we can hear and abide by His voice above the chatter and stress of our lives”. There has been much chatter and stress during this past pandemic year. Tuning out fear has been difficult, and that fear has driven a lot of what we see in the reactions of our politicians, social me…
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September 13, 2016
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Essays

What a Teacher Can Add that Google Can’t

by Al Bandstra
…t morning and looked up—escapes me now. But I can still see her mouth drop open and her face break into a smile. It was people like her who opened my eyes to the dazzlements of creation. To them, subject matter was more than informationÍľ it called for a response. And teachers’ reactions, when sincere, are often contagious—like that tree on the corner that seems to ignite the ones around it. Miss Arends could take on any jock on the basketball cour…
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October 10, 2016
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Essays

Ethics and Lethal Autonomous Robots

by Derek Schuurman
…s lethal robots is a real one. The efforts to make robots more ethical are commendable, but this research comes with many thorny questions. Ethics cannot be reduced to rules and flow-charts; it involves understanding context, exercising virtues and discerning norms, sometimes in complex situations. Rather than taking out robot insurance, Christians need to engage in the debate and challenge the notion that we can hand over ethical responsibilities…
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April 19, 2019
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Essays

God Is Still Rolling Stones—Do You Believe?

by Andrew Oppong
…ah, I’m the one who dug this grave But You called my name You called my name. Christian Reformed Church Position Statement on Abortion: https://www.crcna.org/welcome/beliefs/position-statements/abortion  â†©…
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January 30, 2017
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Essays

Who is My Neighbor?

by Tom Clark
…d we ask for the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses yearning to break free just to be brought here? Should we lift our lamp beside the golden door? Or should we wall our hearts against the refugees fleeing from war? Should we support executive orders preventing refugees from Syria from coming to America until it is safe for them to return? To be clear, refugees fleeing from conflict are not the same as undocumented immigrants. That is an enti…
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September 29, 2021
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Essays

In Search of True Silence

by Jackson Nickolay
…r attention. The pace of life in the world has and will continue to be one defined by an ongoing rattle and hum and a distinct lack of easy access to solitude and silence. So, if we are to “create silence” as Kierkegaard suggests, then we must first turn to ourselves. Though we cannot ever truly control the world around us, we can control how we respond to it. It is within ourselves that we must seek to craft the kind of solitude and silence that…
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January 5, 2021
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Culture

From Colorblind to Colorbrave

by Chandra Crane
…ciety to be not colorblind, but colorbrave. “‘Race in America makes people completely uncomfortable,’ says Hobson. ‘Bringing it up is the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail.’”3 Being colorbrave means celebrating the “shocking” truth that we should actually see and celebrate our differences. At best, colorblindness is starting from a White, majority culture, “universal” perspective and then seeking to fit stories of people of colo…
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November 2, 2022
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Podcast

Podcast: LOWERING our Expectations of Human Virtue with Dave Zahl

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…ster syndrome” and sets us free from the “fantasy self we are failing to become” – Why communities organized around vulnerability and weakness are healthier and more hopeful than communities organized around strength and success. – How low anthropology responds to contemporary phenomena like celebrity culture and cancel culture – How sermons, churches, and discipleship look different when we operate on the priority of the heart rather than the hea…
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October 19, 2017
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Devotions

The Essence of Hospitality

by Stephanie Doeschot
…d and welcomed into the community of faith that they gladly welcome others freely? Examples of real people in each of these categories come to mind easily for me, as I am sure they do for you if you have been in the church for more than a few years. I give thanks for those who have embodied the grace of Jesus for me and for so many others. Their very lives have been a “welcome mat,” inviting me to walk more fully into the community of faith on so…
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September 18, 2018
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Essays

Looking Overseas to Look at Home

by Caleb Schut
…unity is your biggest asset or liability for mission. If it is a permeable community that is centered around Jesus, then your events, programs, and services will bend towards being hospitable places where outsiders can encounter the people of God. People are desperate for a community they can belong to. They aren’t desperate to be preached at. Churches shaped by the Missio Dei are able to trust God because it is His mission. At the same time, they…
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February 2, 2022
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Culture

Nostalgia in Entertainment

by Kara Jasper
…soothed to indifference, our awareness and compassion decreases. Further, entertainment companies “churn out art and entertainment that lull the oppressed into believing that they are actually happy with their lot in life.”6 The nostalgic entertainment industry is “the new opiate of the masses, a means by which the elite preserve their privilege.”7   Community in Nostalgia   The biggest thing at play in nostalgic entertainment is the portrayal of…
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February 2, 2017
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Essays

NASCAR’s Faith: The Rise of Cultural Christianity through Sport

by Doug Thompson
…th, but it also legitimates leisure time. In the process, the invocation becomes commodified and Nelms’s prayer does not seem odd as much as it seems to mimic the larger occasion of the race. While God’s name is invoked and Jesus’s sacrifice praised in the face of one of the most pointed examples of mortality in sport, worship itself appears to be given to NASCAR and the cultural praise located in American identity. There has been an exchange, but…
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January 19, 2015
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MLK Day

by Liz Moss
…Address at March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs Letter from Birmingham Jail (view the document and listen to the audio) An open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr., this letter defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, arguing that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. The letter was widely published and became an important tex…
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March 15, 2017
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The Reformations and the Genesis of Popular Christian Media

by Scott Culpepper
…media. Luther accepted some Roman Catholic critiques that the interpretive freedom he defended raised the risk of interpretive anarchy. But however a fair review, he believed the benefits outweighed the risks. Even those who would agree with his assessment admit that five centuries of hindsight have proven that democracy in communication opens the playing field to the responsible and irresponsible alike. Religious pamphlet wars and populist script…
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September 6, 2022
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Essays

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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January 30, 2018
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Introduction to Gender Dysphoria

by Mark Yarhouse
…at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 3, 1994. Retrieved from https://www.ewtn.com/library/issues/prbkmter.txt Pinckaers, Servais O.P., Morality: The Catholic View. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2001. Mark A. Yarhouse, Understanding Gender Dysphoria: Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. Mark A. Yarhouse & Dara Houp, D., Transgender Christians: “Gender identity, family relat…
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April 6, 2022
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Podcast

Podcast: RECKONING- Feature Conversation: Vincent Bacote

by Justin Ariel Bailey
…ians should get to know. Resources mentioned in this podcast: Dr. Bacote’s article, “Gifts from Father Abraham”: https://comment.org/gifts-from-father-abraham/ Learning from a Legend by Jared Alcantara: https://wipfandstock.com/9781498226097/learning-from-a-legend/ Follow Dr. Bacote: https://twitter.com/vbacote To further your reading, Shaun Stiemsma, a Dordt professor, wrote a review of Dr. Bacote’s chapter from Calvinism for a Secular Age….
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November 25, 2014
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Devotions

Prayer of Confession

by Liz Moss
…Ebony Adebayo’s article “When Black Victims Become Trending Hashtags.” Peggy, McIntosh. “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 1988). Posted online as an excerpt and reprinted again in 2010. â†©…
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August 18, 2017
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Devotions

All the Nations

by Jamin HĂĽbner
…). Who does this? “All the people” (v. 3). To what end? “o that your way becomes known on earth” and “so that your salvation becomes known, among all the nations” (v. 2). Why? “Because you judge the nations fairly and guide all the nations of the earth” (v. 4), and “The earth has yielded its harvest” (v. 6). But, what about when nations seem to be judged unfairly? What about when there is no harvest? How can one reconcile these grandiose praises w…
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May 9, 2017
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Spirit-Filled Mindfulness Through Lectio Divina

by Shirley Folkerts
…io divina, we come to God’s Word to be with God, and in this presence we become open to the Holy Spirit’s transforming work in us. Little did I know that this would be the beginning of one of the most meaningful seasons of spiritual growth in my life. Even less so did I realize that I had signed up to memorize Scripture passages each week! If you are not one to memorize Scripture, you should know that memorization is not a requirement for lectio d…
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April 28, 2017
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Devotions

Keep On Keeping On

by Kate Meyer
…rejoice. But in the moment that I start to understand the wide gate to be open to certain people and closed to others? Suddenly, I become the very person I’m fighting against. I am not God. You are not God. God is not God—at least not in the construct I’ve made for God. God is bigger than anything the human mind can create, so the minute that I limit how and who God can love, I lose sight of the One True God. So, for today, I will continue depend…
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December 6, 2018
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Essays

Tradition!

by Dawn Berkelaar
…se of connection and family identity. Traditions can also offer a sense of comfort and security; in a world so full of uncertainties, it is reassuring when some things stay the same. However, I’ve learned that expectations can complicate traditions. Sometimes we carry our own unrealistic expectations for what the season should be like. Other times, we may feel like expectations are unfairly imposed by others. It might be that we have different exp…
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September 29, 2016
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Essays

American Delusion

by Peter TeWinkle
…system works just fine for them. They value diversity in theory but their commitment to equality pales in comparison to their pursuit of the latest microbrew and Netflix series. They are sympathetic to people of color, but not willing to sacrifice. Still, they are most at home in the country that America is becoming demographically and morally. This election is a vivid illustration of the dynamics of the white electorate. Someone from the entrepr…
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February 27, 2018
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A Calvinist Defense of Islam?

by Matthew Kaemingk
…ogy and politics, while also commanding these same Christians to zealously defend the freedoms and dignity of their Muslim neighbors. My book Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear lays out a full Christian defense of Muslim rights and dignity. However, I want to limit myself here to briefly discussing a single Calvinist theologian and a couple of the resources he provides for an alternative path to Christian political hosp…
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