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March 30, 2021
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Podcast

Podcast: DOUBTING – Feature Conversation with A.J. Swoboda

by Justin Bailey
…ters (parents & teachers) The importance of the local congregation when it comes to holding onto faith As we’ve done with previous episodes, we are giving away five copies of A.J.’s book. You can enter the drawing by following In All Things on Social Media, sharing or re-tweeting this episode; leaving a review of the podcast will get you three bonus entries! (tag us or let us know to make sure your name is included). Thanks again for tuning in! If…
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May 23, 2016
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Essays

The Relationship Between Faith and Art

by Ryan Stander
…s, all things, including the arts, exist as part of God’s “intricate and encompassing web of divine power, presence, and grace.”5 Nothing stands wholly apart from God’s presence regardless of how we may try to define who and what is part of God’s redemptive plan. Likewise, H.R. Rookmaaker also looked toward creation in one of the modern classics on art and theology. Rookmaaker argued “art needs no justification” and is intrinsically worthy of our…
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August 7, 2014
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…scenter@dordt.edu. Comments Current settings for Comments (and Pingbacks): Commenters must enter a name and email address. Replies on comments can go 5 levels deep. Comments are paginated with 5 non-nested (top-level) comments per page. Once there is more than one page of comments, the last/most recent page of comments is shown first below the post. Suspected spam goes into a spam queue automatically. Check it periodically or it will be automatica…
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March 18, 2017
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Devotions

Stones

by Jeff Ploegstra
…us 17:6) In a barren place, a stone was struck and salvation poured forth. Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. (Psalm 95:1-3) “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who str…
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December 27, 2018
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Essays

The Top 10 iAt Articles for 2018

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…d we want to hear from you! What topics would you like iAt to explore this coming year? Comment with your thoughts and ideas. The Toughest Question about Christian Education by Leah Zuidema “I’ve done school a lot of different ways and in a lot of different places. Some things have changed a lot. Some haven’t. One of the constants has been a question that I’ve encountered again and again across these different settings. Each time, the essence is t…
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December 2, 2015
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Christ, Consumerism, and Christmas

by Aaron Baart
…s? On one occasion, Jesus showed up at a scene where the religious and the commercial had assumed they could make perfectly compatible bedfellows. It didn’t go so well. In fact, this is the one story of the Bible where Jesus appears to become more angry than in any other. The fact that merchants were co-opting religious practices designed to cultivate intimacy between the worshiper and his father, and were using them for material gain, provoked a…
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May 19, 2017
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Devotions

Where Do You Go?

by Kara Lepley
…ribly gory and terrible! As the verses of Genesis 7:1-24 portray, Noah was commanded to enter the humongous Ark that he had built, along with his entire family and a large amount of animals. As the story goes, seven days after the animals and people boarded the Ark, the rain started and kept going until the entire land was flooded. Any living thing that was not on the Ark was no longer—entire groups of people and many numbers of animals were simpl…
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July 3, 2017
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Devotions

God Doesn’t Leave

by Katlyn DeVries
…gly, Jezebel hatches a horrible plan that leads to the death of Naboth and frees up his property for confiscation by the king. That’s it. That’s all we hear of Naboth. Our passage ends with verse 16: “When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of Naboth’s vineyard.” Ahab and Jezebel win. Though the passage goes on to pronounce judgment on Ahab’s descendants because of this heinous act, the story is over for Na…
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June 7, 2017
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Essays

Elusive Unity

by Jim Payton
…Holy Spirit §78) Listening to their counsel will serve us all better as we enter upcoming synods, with the potential the arguments we may bring or hear might have for dissension, bitterness, edginess, and division. May we remember that what unites us is not agreement on every point of teaching and practice, but a faith that – as Irenaeus of Lyons stressed already in the late second century – is rooted in the apostles’ teaching: “This is the summar…
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December 19, 2016
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Devotions

The Punch Line

by Ethan Brue
…his covenant I am making through you, the unsuspecting butt of this cosmic comedy. When very young children tell knock-knock jokes, they often improvise and tend toward excessive elaboration. Imaginations runs wild. The longer the punch line, the better. Whenever God comes to the world in childish form, imagination runs wild…stars, donkeys, angels, shepherds, wise men, you name it…everyone and everything is in the elaborate punch line. We all laug…
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February 28, 2017
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Devotions

Following God

by Katlyn DeVries
…re trying so hard to do the right thing; when we feel like we’ve finally accomplished something, only to have it thrown in our face. Maybe we have a tendency, like Elijah, to complain about or to blame others. Maybe we, like Elijah, adopt a false perception of reality, thinking, “I’m all alone in this.” In short, maybe we get stuck in thinking, “It’s all about me.” At Mount Carmel, God showed up in a blazing fire of glory. And as Elijah waits on t…
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January 24, 2023
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Essays

Topics Christians Should Discuss: Mass Incarceration (Part 1)

by Joya Schreurs
…tions both can and should be direct refusals of injustice and infused with compassion for all impacted parties. “This injustice must awaken the witness of the proximal church.” To begin understanding how incarceration became “mass” and fraught with inequity, some statistics are in order. Despite decreasing crime rates, the national prison population has skyrocketed, with an increase from 350,000 to over 2.3 billion in the past thirty years alone.3…
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May 16, 2019
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Essays

Confessions of a Secret Gnostic: Part Two

by Chandra Crane
…eling secure in our status as beloved heirs. Being graciously ushered into communion with the glorious Trinity by our union with Christ, our bodies do not fade away, or become irrelevant! Rather, they have hope for new life in the here and now, as well as eternal, embodied life in the age to come. The Holy Spirit of our Lord Jesus does not merely hover in the sky. He inhabits his people. He condescends to tabernacle with us, and this is no mere al…
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October 16, 2015
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Essays

Bible Stories No One Talks About

by Mark Verbruggen
…akes for a prostitute. However, from this son of Jacob and his affair will come our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Matthew 1). In Judges 19-21, there is a long story that begins with a Levite and his concubine who is later taken by the men of Gibeah who rape her all night long and leave her for dead at the door of the house. What follows is a civil war between the tribes of Israel against the tribe of Benjamin (from whom the men of Gibeah come) tha…
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September 20, 2021
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Retelling the Story of the Church: Jehu Hanciles and the Importance of Migration

by Myles Werntz
…rmonious and contextual ways which are simply what happens when Christians enter into new cultures. But over time, the non-Chalcedonian formula becomes instantiated in liturgies in ways analogous to the Chalcedonian formula. Has the informal form of Christianity, practiced in Syria and in the Orthodox East, become the “imperial” form now? Or does it retain the designation of “from the ground up,” despite its confessional adoption? From Hanciles’ p…
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November 4, 2016
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Be Not Afraid…To Vote for a Third-Party Conservative Candidate

by Tom Clark
…ear for a third party candidate to break through, and maybe the major parties will get the message and nominate better candidates in the future. See analysis here.  ↩ See analysis by the Tax Policy Center  ↩ Watch this video here for example he spends several hours in a mostly African-American church in Atlanta answering their questions. ↩ See 538’s forecast of Utah  ↩…
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July 7, 2017
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Essays

Citizenship, Identity, and Populism

by Jeff Taylor
…han most liberal and progress-minded Americans are demonic, America-hating Communists. There are two main perspectives when it comes to immigration: melting pot (assimilation) vs. multiculturalism (diversity). It’s never been completely an either/or situation in the U.S. of A. Melting pot is the more traditional approach, but natural freedoms and constitutional rights provided space for those who spoke Dutch in the home, sang German at church, rea…
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June 15, 2017
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Devotions

The Grace of Birdwatching

by Erin Zoutendam
…FEE-bee or the chipping sparrow say chip-chip-chip-chip-chip-chip—it is to enter another world or learn another language. I am often nearly overwhelmed with gratitude for these moments that are an in-breaking of grace. You can’t summon a bird sighting; you can only receive it. The outdoors is no longer brown-earth-green-trees-blue-sky but rather brilliant orange orioles, tiny kinglets brimming with good cheer, and comical little fellows called bro…
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January 22, 2017
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Devotions

The Anchor of Our Lives

by Amy DeGroot Bowling
…if God had forgotten them, these words brought much needed hope. Change is coming, change is here. God has not forgotten you. Deep darkness will become light. The hopelessness, despair they lived with will be transformed into hope. Winter will become spring. Isaiah’s original hearers lived under a long period of political oppression and exile. In parts of the world, people are living under similar circumstances of oppression and loss of a homeland…
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November 13, 2017
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In Defense of Halloween, or in Defense of the Better Story

by Howard Schaap
…that valley. At Dordt’s recent performance of A Wrinkle in Time, a friend commented how she was opting for the play over the upcoming movie, since there were certain scenes from the book that still so moved her that she wasn’t sure she could handle them cinematically. We certainly have different capacities for story to disturb us, but I stand by the claim that it’s when a story splashes through the placid water of our lives that truth gets in. Co…
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December 8, 2018
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Advent Traditions: What Are We Waiting For?

by Kristin Kobes du Mez, April Fiet, Kayt Frisch
…anslation from Latin, Advent means “coming,” and throughout this season we enter in a time of waiting for the celebration of Christ’s coming into the world on Christmas Day. Typically, couples and families establish traditions in this time of waiting to build anticipation for Christmas. We asked our Editorial Board what traditions were important to them; April Fiet, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, and Kayt Frisch weigh in on how they keep Christ at the cent…
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August 3, 2018
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No Place to Hide: A Review of “The Line Becomes a River”

by Myles Werntz
…fe) which dominates the first section of the work. It is the desire to overcome these forms of strangeness, which comes into view in the second section. This section opens with a story of Cantú’s namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, in which Francis makes peace with the wolf who is outside the city. In the story, Francis presents himself as a mediator between the city and nature, between the hunger of the wolf and the stability of the city. And as t…
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May 19, 2016
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Does Church Attendance Matter?

by Kory Plockmeyer
…son for not worshipping regularly with church is a good one. Yet I want to communicate the grace and love of Jesus Christ first and foremost. As we enter into relationship with one another and focus that relationship on our shared passion for Jesus and our shared experience of the grace of Jesus, I trust that each of us will strengthen and encourage one another in that journey of faith. When we begin from that foundation, we find the church to be…
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January 17, 2023
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Active Imaginations: A Review of Wonders of Creation

by Hannah Landman
…, “Lament allows us to confront the truths we have ignored for the sake of comfort and gives those of us living in comfort a means to petition God on behalf of our neighbors in need.”2 “By slowing down, we can begin to know the world around us, begin to see creation as the place where God dwells.” Images of a ransacked shire, Isengard’s plunder of the Ents, of trees in Lantern Waste being cut down, naturally inspire readers to some measure of ange…
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November 13, 2015
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Essays

Red Cups and Orphans

by Liz Moss
…long-term, in-depth commitment by families, churches, and the entire faith community. If Christians are truly called to welcome in the orphaned and the parentless, then I believe the church — all of us, as a whole — must also answer the call along with these brave parents. Here are a few ways the church can answer this call: 1. Educate yourself. Learn about the long-term effects of trauma in children and the importance of healthy attachment. Some…
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