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January 29, 2016
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Engaging in Politics: Christian Leadership in Every Capacity

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…cts every aspect of life. The more Christians that engage politics with an open-minded and biblically focused perspective, the more we can advance the Kingdom through government. If you agree that Christians should be leaders in politics, consider some of the following ways to get more involved. Joining an organization at the county level is a great place to start. Every county has an established organization that promotes the values of its respec…
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December 1, 2022
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Giving up Busyness for Advent—Peace

by April Fiet
…toring of the things that are broken and separated from each other. We are offered a moment to breathe and to take in the good news that we are God’s beloved children, whether we’ve accomplished everything on our list or we’ve been too tired to get started.  “Peace isn’t just a quieting of the turmoil in our lives, but is a restoring of the things that are broken and separated from each other.” Friends, this week, take a look at your growing to-do…
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March 20, 2017
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The Best Sandbox

by Tom Clark
…many different ways can you make, 0, 1, or 7 using just four 4s? There is freedom to imagine within a structure of rules. Just when you start feeling comfortable, you might change the rules: allow more operations, exponents, square roots, logarithms. In fact, Paul Dirac figured out a clever way of writing any number using just four 4’s! Sometimes, mathematics shows up inside other games. One really interesting example is the children’s game Spot…
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June 5, 2017
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Joy’s Place

by Harlan VanOort
…was a place here for them. Of course the ultimate place is the one being prepared in heaven. (John 14) There God’s presence is full and complete. All competing voices will be no more….
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December 28, 2022
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2022 Top iAt Book Reviews

by Ruth Clark
…tanding interest Williams has had with the ways in which Orthodox theology offers a compelling and distinct vision to longsuffering issues within Western Christianity. . . . Williams addresses key questions of the Christian’s relationship to the world, and what Orthodoxy has to say to questions of being human, knowing God, receiving a tradition, and pursuing justice and holiness.” Check out the rest of the iAt book review here. When Everything’s o…
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November 30, 2016
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You’ve Got to be Kidding Me!

by Roy Berkenbosch
…h’s God bringing promises of fruitfulness, reversal, renewal, forgiveness, compassion, a “steadfast love that will not depart from you,” a “covenant of shalom that shall not be removed,” and a promise that “great shall be the prosperity of all your children.” For most of us reading this, I imagine that the Great Reversal does not arrive like startlingly new or even brand-new news. It comes instead as a reminder to hope, which we hear and receive a…
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September 4, 2014
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A Template for Posts

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This is a suggested template that should be treated as a conceptual model open to revision as the site develops. The chart below shows the main post categories used on inallthings.org and how they should function as genres. Authors submitting material for posts will provide better work if they understand what is expected of them. This is what appears in the lefthand column. Editors preparing posts for publication will need to mind the presentatio…
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April 21, 2017
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Every Story Matters

by Chelsea Maxwell
…I have to search harder than others, but it’s always there. In the midst of the world’s deep brokenness, there is a profound strength. This acknowledgment is not an excuse to be passive in the midst of injustice, but a reminder of our calling to step into the places of hurt and brokenness with open hearts….
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December 29, 2020
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Horizons of Hope

by Howard Schaap
…tion itself might be yearning for. Of course, I know this is a very human-centered way to interpret “creation.” Meanwhile, massive species extinction goes on. More on that below. An even more immediate problem with this more human-centered perspective on hope is that it has very definite horizons. As I write this, another headline reads, “With ‘First Dibs,’ Rich Countries Have Cleared the Shelves.” Vaccine “hope” follows rather particular boundari…
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September 22, 2016
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Good and Full

by Caleb Schut
…uld trust in Jesus rather than in my own ability to sustain my faith was a freedom that I had never experienced. It was a freedom that would carry me through my fears and doubts. My internal contradictions had led me out of my depth to a place where my own spiritual habits and self-assurance could no longer suffice. In the throes of my panic, my years of Christian education at Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, all of the answers I had…
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August 11, 2017
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Righteousness and Peace

by James Calvin Schaap
…ion, thanksgiving, and, yes, supplication (the old ACTS acronym). It’s all passionately there. The story I shouldn’t tell is scandalous, so let me apologize first, and then tell it. Sorry. In another land and another time, a young-ish member of First Church came to worship in something somewhat too revealing, or so most men and women said when she took a seat. Scantily-clad goes too far; we’re not talking bikini. Put it this way: most of the women…
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December 27, 2022
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2022 Top 10 Articles

by Ruth Clark
…to digest and consider in his two-part essay. 10. Top 5: Movies about Rural America by Josh Matthews  Josh Matthews, movie critic and English professor, highlights some valuable movies to consider that celebrate the wide-open spaces of Rural America. Wishing you peace and joy from the in All things editorial board at Dordt University. We’d love to hear from you! Comment with your favorite article or a topic you’d like to see us review….
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February 17, 2017
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Teachers in Snow Boots

by Sandra Summers
…ition (it is in fact, the longest Psalm). Recently, however, Psalm 119 has come to be appreciated as poetic expression, with intentional and complex structure. Do you remember in elementary school making acrostic poems? Often using your first name, the teacher would invite you to describe yourself using the letters of your name. Psalm 119 is an acrostic with the Hebrew alphabet. We do not know exactly why the Psalmist made this choice – was it to…
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December 8, 2021
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2021 Top iAt Book Reviews

by Ruth Clark
…’t always theologically motivated. More often than not, the power struggle comes first, and the theology comes second as a means to justify decisions already made. If the reader disagrees with that last sentence, then I encourage them to read Barr’s book with an open mind, particularly her analysis of the patriarchy and its tight connection with the inerrancy argument and its use of “slippery slope” theology, and allow the good, bad, and ugly of c…
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March 2, 2023
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Embracing Our Unruly Lives: A Review of Unruly Saint

by April Fiet
…led these observations into passionate journalistic pieces.  Dorothy found community among others who were passionate about social change just like she was. She spent late evenings talking with people who wanted to see labor conditions improve and the needs of the people being met. She was inspired to try living on $1.82 a week, which was the amount a single woman would have received from charity organizations at that time1. And she wrote about he…
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December 31, 2020
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2020 Top Articles

by Emily Rowe
…is magic in the mundane.” -Justin Bailey “While SBTB was certainly mostly comedic escape, the sitcom did provide some level of complex adolescent thought as they highlighted social problems, relationship struggles, and the importance of friendships. The show provided a good dose of both humor and seriousness. SBTB certainly shaped me and my peers in both positive and negative ways. It shaped our expectations, but also allowed us to keep a certain…
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April 19, 2018
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Dismantling the Question of “How much screen time should my kid have?”

by Kayt Frisch
…then synthesizes the examples and research into practical guidelines. For example, she recommends “sponsoring” a kid’s interest in tech just as one might an interest in soccer (being a “Minecraft Mom/Dad” like some are a “Soccer Mom/Dad”). She also advocates finding approaches that use media to facilitate communication and closeness within the family and in the broader community. The final theme, parent usage of media in front of and about their…
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May 16, 2017
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Will You Hear Me?

by Chelsea Axford Reynhout
…awake; I am like a lonely bird on the housetop” (v. 7). The psalmist even guides us into the certainty of our ancient faith, renewing our hope: “But you, O LORD, are enthroned forever; your name endures to all generations” (v. 12). This, like many psalms, speaks for those who have no words left. But it’s this psalm in particular that speaks for this deep anxiety that was keeping me from praying in the first place. It gives voice to this deep fear…
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June 29, 2021
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Humility, Humanity, Mutuality: A Review of No Longer Strangers

by Howard Schaap
…e thing, but being proactive about immigration issues was too distressing. Compassion is always a safe topic; justice is challenging” (60). Yang, too, recounts Christian fears of immigrants and refugees: “We in the US church, instead of seeing the humanity of refugees and having refugee stories impact the way we see and understand God, have often closed our hearts and minds to seeing how we could help, protect, and assist the very people God tells…
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July 13, 2021
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The Place for Sacredness: A Review of Pagans and Christians in the City

by Mark McCarthy
…n, Smith goes through many of the different aspects of the two systems. In coming back to his opening questions (why was Christianity seen as such a threat, why do some people insist on suing Christian businesses even though their services are not wanted or needed), he gives his answer. In the end, for the modern pagans, the ideas of the transcendent represent an affront to human dignity, “and their presence is an irritant and an insult to the kin…
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March 20, 2017
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God of Compassion

by Marcy Rudins
…ng us as we loosen our grip of “appearing ok,” and crying with us. This is compassion. God suffering with us. So that, as God suffers with and for us, we might experience an even closer glimpse of communion. In God’s compassion, there is communion and connection. Like the faithful parents and the child crying together in unison, so much so that their tears are blurred together, so is God’s suffering with us. When we open ourselves up, and let ours…
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April 26, 2016
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How Do I Know What to Do With my Life?

by Mark Verbruggen
…it struck me; in their heads they “knew it”, but in their lives they saw a completely different reality. As Reformed Christians, we are quick to give correct theological answers to any number of questions. We can speak about grace and faith, identity and Kingdom calling, and so forth. However, when it comes to the real world of career and choices, we can easily forget it all. Younger people often feel obliged to chase for the trophies, awards, GPA…
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June 30, 2018
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Movie Review “The Rider”

by Josh Matthews
…western American—or none of them. The Rider is not a movie for consumptive entertainment. Hard thinking alone opens it up to discoveries. Brady has a head injury, but careful viewers will note that he risked injury knowing that rodeo-riding could cripple or kill him like his friend Lane. He also risked it knowing that, if either result would happen to him, he would leave his father and sister hard up; and after the recent death of Brady’s mother,…
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May 14, 2017
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In God’s Hands

by Daniel Vos
…danger. Is there room for Psalm 31 in the anatomy of our souls? Faith is a complicated thing in this passage because it assumes that God can and must act on behalf of those who trust in him. Providence is not a distant theological concept in the logic of the psalm; rather, providence is how God should intervene in my crises. In Psalm 31, faith is both desperately needy and tenaciously hopeful. Both are commended as necessary to the anatomy of the…
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August 15, 2018
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Mere Is Always a Dangerous Word: A Review of “Mere Sexuality” Part Two

by Steven Rodriguez
…ts potentially troubling. While he insists that “we cannot say that gender complementarity, in and of itself, grounded in common sense biology, is the heart of the church’s historic (“mere”) teaching on sexuality”, I do not see him reference scriptural or historic church teachings showing that complementarity is not assumed to be the heart of sexuality. Like gravity, it is assumed by authors and left unstated. When Rodriguez’ asks “can we ground o…
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