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Debra Rienstra

The Festival Geek Recommends

My colleague Jennifer Holberg got a head start on me last November by recommending some authors who will be featured at the Calvin Festival of

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Hamilton and Our Story

I first found out about the new Broadway musical Hamilton during a car ride across Michigan last November. The family was packed in the minivan

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Doing Something Else

O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest things superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is cheap

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Rejected Christmas Carols

If the joy of Christmas ever breaks through the frenzy of event-going and present-wrangling and (for me) end-of-semester grading, it happens through music. This year,

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No Words Fall

It must begin with Zechariah’s silence. Nothing against poor old Zechariah. Who can blame him for asking a decent question? The text tells us that

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Contentment

Grandma Theresa’s heart is extremely weak. No surprise, as it’s been pumping nonstop since before she was born in July of 1912. That’s the year

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Nothing is Wasted

“And speaking of things overheard, you heard right: if I have to go out, I am going to go out singing.” – Brett Foster I’d

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