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May 27, 2015
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Fort Sumter and the Rhyme of Hope and History

by Patrick L. Connelly
…Anderson rose to deliver brief remarks before raising the flag. Anderson’s comments drew upon Luke 2:14, which conveyed the commentary of the angels on the cosmic implications of the Incarnation: “I thank God I have lived to see this day to be here to perform this perhaps the last act of duty to my country in this life. My heart is filled with gratitude to Almighty God for the signal blessings which he has given us–blessings beyond number. May all…
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September 22, 2022
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Of Trees and Rings: A Reflection on The Rings of Power

by Tom Clark
…s eyes, assents to cutting down the tree. “Do you refuse, and subsequently offer your life for the sake of your principles, or do you participate in a small evil to prevent a greater evil…?” This scene alone makes the series worthy of watching, as it brings to the forefront the question of how one acts in the face of certain evil. Do you refuse, and subsequently offer your life for the sake of your principles, or do you participate in a small evil…
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February 22, 2023
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Apocalyptic Films: Questions to Ask

by Elyse Kuperus
…periencing a life-altering event. While the outlook on life and the future offered within apocalyptic cinema is rather grim, it offers a poignant question that should give us pause: when faced with our own world falling down around us, how will we act? Where will we turn? This reality, and the question it forces us to ask ourselves, offers a glimpse into some of the reason why this genre has gained such a hold on the current generation. It also af…
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May 7, 2020
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The Trial of Transformation: A Review of When Narcissism Comes to Church

by Todd Zuidema
…display narcissistic behavior? At the end of the book, DeGroat cautiously offers hope. He doesn’t offer easy answers or cheap grace. He doesn’t easily dismiss the emotional carnage that has been done. What DeGroat does do is affirm that every person is an image bearer of God. No one is outside of the grace and forgiveness that is offered in Jesus Christ. He affirms the 2 Corinthians 5:17 proclamation that, “If anyone is in Christ, the new creatio…
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February 7, 2022
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Can Calvinists Save the World?: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age

by Jessica Joustra, Robert Joustra
…for loving faithful institutions. Third, we are not afraid. So much of our common politics today is driven by fear: a crisis in identity politics and the pressure for recognition, a crisis in whether common causes or values hold us together beyond the procedures and institutions, straining under the stress of shifting architectonic plates of culture. Kuyper’s Calvinism is not idealistic, but it is hopeful. Calvinists, in the end, are the last ones…
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January 19, 2022
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Sabbath Practice

by Jackson Nickolay
…om the state of service to time and into friendship with time, then time becomes love. Time spent with others becomes an embodiment of that love. Engaging in sabbath practice has been a step along that journey of befriending time for me. It has enabled some spaciousness even in the midst of very busy seasons and could be just the thing needed for this new year. If you’re looking for a change to make to your lives in 2022, I offer this as something…
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February 8, 2017
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: An Introduction to the Enneagram

by Dawn Berkelaar
…y unconscious motivation. Recognizing the latter can help you respond with compassion instead of frustration, and can enable you to more react more practically. This can vastly improve relationships; one couple I know told me that their marriage likely would not have survived without helpful insights from the enneagram. (However, one caution: Do not try to decide someone else’s Type for them; motivations are personal and need to be pinpointed on a…
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December 29, 2022
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Finding Hope in a Bleak Midwinter

by Bruce Kuiper
…our hearts rather than chopping them out of the ice. Once these hearts are free of winter, they end up being the only things we can offer in return. And, really, they’re the only things we have that have any true value.  It’s winter now, and it will be for many more weeks, so it’s difficult to see the hope of spring or the joy of life. Such a situation—such a bleak midwinter setting—can help us see the love and majesty of our God who not only prov…
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January 31, 2019
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Longing for Spring: Songs of Lament

by John MacInnis
…ed to us, but still we often hunger and thirst; God proclaims that he will come quickly, but he seems deaf when we cry to him. What would become of us were we not supported by hope, and did not our minds emerge out of the midst of darkness above the world through the light of God’s word and of his Spirit? Only personal examination will show for sure, but it is possible that the songs we sing and listen to betray a preference for generic hope, assu…
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February 5, 2016
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Loving God With Our Bodies

by Chad Hanson
…voice and the notes changing in a hymn, so the richness of each hymn has become greater for me. 6. Want to talk about it?: The Great Commission in Matt 28:19 speaks of going to all the nations and making disciples. We are required to share our faith with words. We are required to proclaim the name of Jesus to anyone who will listen. “But I don’t know how to do it or what to say.” Simply put, you start with humility and honesty and prayer. Feel fre…
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June 24, 2017
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The Pervasive Power of Leaven

by Josh Bootsma
…required his people to partake of unleavened bread as a remembrance of Him passing over the Israelites’ homes and setting his people free from their bondage to Pharaoh. Each time they would eat of it, God’s people would remember the great exodus from Egypt, and would in turn remember God’s deliverance. The flatness of the bread at which my young self scoffed actually served the Israelites as a stark reminder of God’s power, grace, and love (displa…
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December 10, 2015
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Sabbath, Sleep and Saying ‘No’ to Busy-ness

by Emily Munger
…s it unhealthy, it’s unbiblical. Jesus calls us to lofty goals of love and compassion, yes, but never the burden of guilt. In Matthew 11: 28-30, Jesus frees us from the burdens we place upon ourselves and others: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” S…
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May 12, 2020
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Our Fiscal Policy Response to the COVID Crisis

by John Visser
…industries, $1,000 per week in unemployment compensation means both lower company costs and bigger checks for idled workers. The emergency package is also throwing money at employers who would have retained their employees without government money. Additionally, company owners are both uniquely qualified and richly rewarded for providing goods and services, and planning for the risks associated with doing this. Companies that don’t frivolously pa…
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March 24, 2022
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Fewer “App(s) for that” 

by Mike Janssen
…bruary of 2020, while trying to figure out who won the Iowa caucuses. This opened a door to reenter social media following the story over the course of several days, though once the caucus drama died down, I was able to disengage.   Until March 11, 2020.  On that night, Rudy Gobert and Tom Hanks tested positive for Covid-19, everything shut down, and the world changed. We stayed home, sanitized our groceries, and, in the ensuing confusion, sought…
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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
…influence.” I wholeheartedly embrace Payne’s call for embodied theological communities, and that “the best theological conversations come from face-to-face encounters, preferably with good food and drink.” That has certainly been true in my life. I dearly hope women will be key and enduring voices in those embodied communities and conversations. And I hope they will be equipped, empowered, and sent by the church into their embodied work of theolog…
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November 30, 2017
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Grief, Doubt, and Hope: Victor Austin’s Losing Susan

by Kate Henreckson
…his wife. “When you are happy…” says Lewis, “you will be—or so it feels—welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.” But, expressions of anger at God—from the hearts of His faithful followers—date much farther back than Lewis. “Awake, O Lord!” David cries out in the Ps…
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May 4, 2018
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Science for All Christians

by Jeff Ploegstra
…dents to develop the understandings and habits of mind they need to become compassionate human beings able to think for themselves and to face life head on. It should equip them also to participate thoughtfully with fellow citizens in building and protecting a society that is open, decent, and vital.” It is hard to argue with such a statement. However, “Science for All Americans” is incomplete in important ways for a Christian—I would argue legiti…
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April 14, 2016
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Ministry on the Edges of Neo-Pagan North America

by Brian and Betsy Turnbull
…and spiritual transformation (loving God). By getting started, a missional community becomes a closely-knit group of people on a mission together. As individuals of the group engage their own personal transformation and the transformation of those around them, they begin to see glimpses of a spiritual transformation taking hold in the larger community around them. Feder, Michelle, “Are we Losing Our Religion? Searching for Spirituality in Seattle,…
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February 28, 2019
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Hospitality in Higher Education: Is There Room for All?

by Christina Edmondson
…rms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence. In one case he may provoke contempt and derision, but in the other he is an affront to pride and provokes malice. The motivations for maintaining exclusivity are complex. Exclusivity can fee…
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December 2, 2021
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The Catechism as Counter-Culture: A Review of You Are Not Your Own

by Donald Roth
…o engage in constant self-expression. Further, the affirmation of others becomes a required component for giving “weightiness” to our chosen meanings. Thus, our self-expression (and affirmation of it) becomes a weight of anxiety and contingency that undermines supposed virtues like contentment or any sort of stable happiness.  Ultimately, Noble says that society places us in a “binary tension of existentialism” that entices us with “godlike powers…
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October 20, 2021
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Gained in Translation: A Review of the First Nations Version

by Justin Bailey
…accessible through learning other words.    In describing the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2), Luke identifies numerous diverse people groups who are present for the miracle. The Spirit empowers the believers to speak in other tongues, and each immigrant and pilgrim hears about the mighty works of God in their own language. Notice, the gift in this passage is not a universal language. No, each person hears their own native language. This means that the…
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May 18, 2016
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A Letter from the Frontier

by Gretchen Schoon Tanis
…to the Living Word, when we pray for one another and our world and when we offer community for one another in the midst of our pilgrim journey of faith. I feel less isolated and more comforted when we gather together for church. As a significant witness for all of us, my kids meet classmates who are, in some way, also being raised in the Christian faith. I leave you with my message to the world: be more like Germany. Be welcoming of refugees and o…
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October 29, 2015
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Why Should Ecology Matter to a Christian?

by Derek Buteyn
…perfectly responsible steward of creation. However, I try to keep my eyes open to opportunities that allow me to live as a steward, and examine ways I am living environmentally irresponsibly. I’ve taken advantage of opportunities to live environmentally on a small scale, which adds up to have a larger impact. These are only a few suggestions of the things that I make an effort to do; there are certainly more concrete ways we are able to live resp…
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April 13, 2017
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iAt Book Club: The Benedict Option

by Donald Roth
…ncharitably. We can be uncharitable by assuming that Dreher’s promotion of free enterprise at the political level means an opposition to personal generosity, but, as Robert pointed out, I don’t think the one entails the other. At face value, a preference for free enterprise has to do with balancing government interventions in the marketplace; this doesn’t oppose the idea of Christians voluntarily pooling their resources for their common good. More…
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November 6, 2019
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Fairness for All: Using Civil Rights Law to Protect Distinctively Christian Higher Education

by Stanley Carlson-Thies
…agencies, employees, and more. My organization—the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, a division of the Center for Public Justice—and the CCCU have been working toward this goal for more than three years, drawing in other religious organizations, religious freedom advocates, and LGBT rights advocates to fully explore how to achieve simultaneous new protections. Of course, this legislative effort cannot be the only action; CCCU promotes othe…
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