Author: Michelle Van Loon
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Pilgrim’s Road Trip #3 – Babel
I posted this creative take on the Babel account (below) from Genesis 11:1-9 last February, but it bears repeating here as I continue my chronological journey through Scripture exploring the themes of our identity and experience as exiles. My goal in this series is to offer some helpful thoughts about how Christ can reshape that identity and…
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Pilgrim’s Road Trip #2 – Cain
We live as exiles. We’re called to be pilgrims. I am journeying through Scripture chronologically in the coming year, exploring the themes of our identity and experience as exiles. I’ll also offer some helpful thoughts about how Christ can reshape that identity and reorient our journey so we live as pilgrims. To read earlier posts…
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Pilgrim’s Road Trip #1 – Goodbye, Eden
We live as exiles. We’re called to be pilgrims. I hope to journey through Scripture chronologically in the coming year, exploring the themes of our identity and experience as exiles. I’ll also offer some helpful thoughts about how Christ can reshape that identity and reorient our journey so we live as pilgrims. J.R.R. Tolkien once…
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Review: Booked
When I was a young parent building a library of kiddie lit for my children, it dawned on me that I’d heard bits and pieces of the Good News long before I first read the Gospel of John during high school. I learned about faith and redemption from Grimm’s fairy tales like Little Briar Rose,…
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O Come, O Come Emmanuel | Lament
O come, o come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear. I am lost; my exile is a homeless home. The brightness of your promise fades, early sundown on a cold, dark winter afternoon. God-with-us, where are you? Oh, come, our Wisdom from on high, Who…