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March 30, 2015
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Education for All

by Kathleen Van Tol
…ee how they could improve the ways they are teaching these students. Their commitment to continuing to be an inclusive school community is inspiring. There are so many resources that are available to teachers in North America that are not available to these teachers. For example, most schools in the United States employ educational assistants to help teachers meet the needs of students with significant disabilities. For almost every one of the stu…
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August 15, 2017
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I’m Racist (and So Are You)

by Nicole Baart
…fostering a greater degree of selfishness, an inability to fulfill the greatest commandment as we learn to fall in line with the mantra: “me first.” And the philosophy of me and mine first—and even America first—is nothing less than idolatry. I am ashamed of the girl that I was and know that the woman I am has far to go. But I pray that I can humble myself enough to be soft and teachable. To seek peace even if—especially if—it requires my repentan…
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May 19, 2015
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The Responsible Ones: Young People, Faith, and Letting Go

by Jason Lief
…faith. I believe that this provides a great opportunity for the Christian community to have a conversation about faith, Christian community, and what it means to live as human beings in the context of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ. Thanks for your question! Jason Lief Thanks Carrie. I would go even further and ask what we mean by “lose”. If we see the Christian community as an outward movement than we stop putting conditions on belief and fait…
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October 13, 2017
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A Response to the Responses: On Women, Celebrity, Institutions, and Authority

by Tish Harrison Warren
…al to this—and rightly so—is that women in evangelicalism, particularly in complementarian circles, do not have access to this kind of institutionally embedded authority (and the accountability that should come with any spiritual authority). And that is, of course, true. But I’d like it not to be forgotten that, in my original CT article, before I wrote one word asking anything of women, I devoted 555 words to asking institutions to recognize the…
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July 15, 2016
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What Does Progressive Mean?

by Kim Van Es
…ts that tend to define this spiritual approach. (For more information, I recommend www.progressivechristianity.org.) A place to start is with the United Church of Christ’s symbol of the comma, along with its slogan “God is still speaking,.”According to progressives, God’s revelation did not end centuries ago, but truth continues to unfold through new readings of the Bible and through study of the created world. How does one apply faith in a consta…
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June 19, 2017
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Culture

Wonder Woman

by Josh Matthews
…r place in the Justice League, especially amongst the more jaded of the DC Comics superheroes. She combines feminine beauty and elegant athleticism with the awesome power of a Greek goddess who can assault a German trench all by herself. Her attack on a German sniper holed up in a church tower is especially impressive. Contrasting nicely with Gadot is Pine, who brings a lot of his Captain-Kirk schtick to this movie, including in scenes where he mu…
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September 10, 2018
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The Toughest Question about Christian Education

by Leah Zuidema
…al puts it like this: “Ultimately, a Christian education is for others—the common good of the communities in which we and our students live and serve.” This idea about the common good isn’t just a trendy saying. In The Case for Christian Higher Education, the CCCU estimates that its institutions are responsible for contributing $60 billion in total economic output annually (through institutional expenditures, alumni employment, and institutional w…
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July 10, 2018
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The Fortnite Phenomenon: Should Christians be Wary? (Part I)

by Donald Roth
…eo games are play, not drugs, and they have many of the same benefits that come from freeform play in any environment. So how does Fortnite fit in as an example of unstructured play? The game itself has a colorful and simplified aesthetic that feels somewhat cartoonish, and the gameplay is a mix between crafting and survival games like Minecraft and a more traditional shooter game. That is, players will harvest resources from their environments to…
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April 21, 2015
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Forgive Us

by Erica Hughes
…of being spoken to for 20 minutes then being asked if I’m Kenyan. Please, come and protect me from the comments— “I didn’t know the niggers work here,” “I just lump all black people together,” And “Come, let’s put them in a closet so that their teeth and eyeballs gleam”— So I won’t be tempted to smoke a blunt just so I can cope with the fact that I have black skin and a vagina. Instead, let my words be a witness to the Son who was brown and who m…
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May 14, 2015
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We Are an Air Force Family

by Michael and Jessica Kiss
…we have had to endure as a family the last 10 years. What has been the greatest joy and the hardest part? The greatest joy has been watching how the military has molded my husband into the wonderful, respectful, and humble man he is today. The military has made Mike a much better husband and father to our three boys. The hardest part hands down has been the deployments, especially last hugs before he leaves and the uncertainty of how he will come…
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May 26, 2015
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They Both Prayed to the Same God

by Scott Culpepper
…cluded in his list of those united in Christ the phrase “neither slave nor free.” Examples in the Old Testament such as the Exodus and the provisions in ancient Israel for a “year of Jubilee” (Leviticus 25: 8-13) supported the case for abolition. Above all, the Biblical account of human creation in the image of God and the unrealized ideal of the equality of all men included in the Declaration of Independence spurred Northerners to embrace the ema…
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April 25, 2017
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Books

Irresistible Grace

by Kate Henreckson
…ngly, baptismal imagery permeates the book from start to finish. The novel opens with the child Lila rescued from abandonment by Doll, the woman who becomes a mother to her. The first thing Doll does with the girl is to cleanse Lila, by pouring water over her head. When Lila later recalls that event, she feels that she had been “born a second time” that night. In another scene, Lila happens upon a river where people are being baptized, one of the…
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April 4, 2017
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iAt Book Club: The Benedict Option

by Scott Culpepper
…roposal that is definitely not going to come from the pen of a champion of free enterprise like Dreher. If Dreher wants to highlight the positive potential of Christian communities existing alongside mainstream culture, he ignores a multitude of examples from earlier American history. Again, nothing he proposes is new. What he suggests resonates so powerfully with Donald’s memories of growing up in Christian Reformed communities because Dutch immi…
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May 22, 2017
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Culture

The Case for Christ

by Josh Matthews
…rucifixion. It has a high cringe factor. I could feel the audience, mostly composed of people over the age of 60, wanting more.) Besides its didactic moments, which are many, The Case for Christ dramatizes Strobel’s conversion from an atheist to a Christian. As a journalist for the Chicago Tribune in the early 1980s, Strobel lives the bourgeois life: a pregnant wife, a job he likes, an adorable young daughter, and a sports car. But his wife Leslie…
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July 21, 2017
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Culture

War for the Planet of the Apes

by Josh Matthews
…aunted by his guilt over Koba, the violent ape he had to kill in Dawn. War opens with a human special ops force that attacks Caesar’s apes, only to be wiped out by them. Caesar offers mercy and peace to the captured human soldiers, yet the human special-ops team comes back and murders Caesar’s wife and oldest son. This causes Caesar to rage. He leaves his tribe, who are sojourning across a desert to a promised land, to avenge his murdered family m…
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June 1, 2017
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I Want to Go Home

by Tanner Smith
…f a person. The person we receive in Jesus Christ, and the person we are becoming because our life is hid in him. (Colossians 3:3) We become people who are formed not by the land we live in, but by the person we follow, and the adopted family to which we belong, the Church. We become a people who find ourselves on the move from death to life, from old to new, from darkness to light. People who aren’t just looking for a new home, but who are lookin…
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September 16, 2015
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Does Gender Matter in the Academic World?

by Neal DeRoo
…ve list, Neal! Just tonight I watched this, my TED Talk of the day: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_kimmel_why_gender_equality_is_good_for_everyone_men_included Was going to share on Facebook, but In All Things is a propos. Julie Ooms Thank you for this list, Neal. It’s great to see these kinds of thoughtful considerations of gender bias and its effects come out of Dordt and the Andreas Center. I would add that, at least anecdotally, my male coll…
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September 13, 2017
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Why I am a Feminist

by Caleb Schut
…the same questions about my career that she had about hers. The vocational default in most marriages bends toward the husband. I made a commitment for that not to be the case in our marriage. Entirely biased but resolute, I remember responding to her, “You will have a better career by us being together. I promise.” That promise put me in therapy in 2015. Well, a lot of things put me in therapy, not the least of which was the fact that my promise t…
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April 6, 2015
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The Common Core: Good or Bad?

by Ed Starkenburg
…standardized tests — I believe in Iowa they will be the Smarter Balanced tests (www.smarterbalanced.org). My understanding is that if a state adopts the CCSS then they are required to use certain tests to report on student growth. Previously, states had more control over what assessments would be used to report for NCLB. Also, the federal government incentivized CCSS adoption by granting waivers for some NCLB mandates if states adopt the CCSS. (…
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April 22, 2016
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Can Role Models Drink?

by Donald Roth
…cohol and cannabis are dramatically lower than other “hard” drugs. (http://www.vox.com/2014/8/2/5960307/marijuana-legalization-heroin-USA-Today) I would push back on you a little bit about your conclusion regarding the Biblical citations here. Drunkenness was hardly unknown in the ancient world; in fact, one of the first things man (Noah) did after the flood was grow some grapes and get blasted. Those in the ancient world were fully aware of the d…
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September 27, 2016
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Pastoral Reflections on the Election Cycle

by Mark Verbruggen
…minds, our wills, our hearts, and our bodies. This truth ought to bring us comfort even if we find ourselves despairing of the upcoming election. Christ will never be dethroned and the Kingdom of God will never be defeated. A truth that might seem so self-evident to us, is a truth that we must always hear again and again. We like to believe that we are the rulers over our own little empires of work, family and school. In many places the Christian…
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July 13, 2016
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What Does Populism Mean?

by Jeff Taylor
…If interested, you can read more in the last section of the paper: http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2016/11/trump-in-context/ But I can certainly understand why many Republicans do not think that Trump is a conservative. It depends on how you define the word. To give a counter-example: Looking at his pedigree and record, I would not call George W. Bush a conservative. Pragmatism, Wall Street domination, and neoconservative globalism are not in t…
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April 14, 2015
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Depression: My Story

by Neal DeRoo
…tuation be any different?” And she was right. God has made human beings as complex creatures: we are a mix of biology, chemistry, sociology, ethics, religion, physics, and more. As such, the conditions that befall us are similarly complex: depression can be both a medical condition and an emotional ‘issue.’ Depression can require both chemical and therapeutic treatments. Some people struggling with depression may need only one of the two; some may…
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October 23, 2018
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Sexual Abuse in the Church

by Caleb Schut
…worship service. People no longer come to church to hear the sermon; they come to take communion. This liturgical move changes the flow of power in worship and in the church as a whole by de-emphasizing the role of the pastor and emphasizing the presence of Christ at the table. The preacher’s personality and charisma should, of course, never be central to the preaching of God’s word. However, churches built around their pastor’s personalities are…
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July 21, 2015
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Experiencing God’s Presence in the Life of Academia

by Benjamin Lappenga
…ope, sketching a proof, sifting through a treatise, designing a bridge, or composing a poem. The second story comes from the middle of my Ph.D. studies, when I took a difficult language exam right before leaving on vacation to visit family. Soon after, I received a cryptic email from one of my supervisors saying that although I had passed the exam, a face-to-face meeting was needed to discuss it. Since I was out of town, the meeting had to be put…
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