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Though I’m not a fan of the genre, the one TV game show I have enjoyed watching on occasion (usually in the company of a senior citizen) is ‘Jeopardy’. Contestants whose brains were overstuffed warehouses of trivia about topics ranging…
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A Different Kind Of Mother’s Day Prayer
“A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families…” (Ps. 68:5-6a) For every woman who will receive a crayoned card made of folded construction paper, a bouquet or a…
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File under: The More Things Change…
Circa 1985. It is a journal entry. Apparently, I walked out of a women’s Bible study that morning. The same sort of stuff I wrote about in this rant still bugs me today. Either I haven’t matured much in the…
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Falling Upward, Chapter 8
I’m blogging through Father Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward: A Spirituality Through The Two Halves Of Life. Even if you haven’t read the book, please stick around and join the conversation here if you’re facing a mid-life transition. Father Rohr offers…
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Festival of Faith & Writing: Ten Quick Observations
Every two years, readers and writers flock to the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI for the Festival of Faith & Writing. The campus buildings bear names like Huizenga, Vanderwerp and Hiemenga, reflecting the deep Dutch roots of…
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Whose gifts are they?
I grabbed a paper cup and pumped hot coffee into it just as I did each week before the Sunday morning worship service began. The coffee table in the lobby of the church was a hive of pre-service Sunday morning…