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Al Schipper

Al Schipper is a retired chaplain and teacher. He is optimistic by nature and enthusiastic by choice. Retirement brought interim challenges, foreign ministry, Red Cross adventures, and authoring COPACETIC: God’s People Transforming Chaos. Now abiding in Grand Rapids, Michigan but always with an eye toward the horizon.

Adept and Agile

“Nothing special” people take risks with a little discernment attached and create a sacred space where none existed previously.
Al Schipper
May 3, 2023

What Was I Teaching?

There’s all that brouhaha going on in Florida. Not to mention that school board meetings across the country now need…
Al Schipper
February 20, 2023

First

My childhood church was really something. I can still hear that steeple bell calling the saints to worship.
Al Schipper
August 17, 2022

Before I Got Here

It might have been here on The Twelve that somebody suggested it would be interesting to discover who owned my…
Al Schipper
February 5, 2021