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Jeff Munroe

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A Few Notes from the Editor

Today’s entry is not an opinion piece but a hodge-podge of things I want to make sure our readers are aware of. One might even

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Belonging

Among the many gifts holidays bring is memory, because holidays allow us to connect memories with dates. I have many memories, but I know the

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The Vanishing Middle

Seventy-eight years ago today, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to begin the misnamed invasion of Europe. I call it misnamed because the

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A Pandemic of Mistrust

I’ve been looking for a theory of everything that explains the madness around us. I’m a big fan of Kristin Kobes DuMez. I was in

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Soup or Salad?

News from the future . . . Sometime in the fall of 2033, what was once an innocent choice became fraught with polarizing possibilities. Protestants

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Slapgate

The day after the Oscars, a Facebook friend of my wife’s posted, “Sure glad Will Smith isn’t white.” A jumble of thoughts went through my

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The Gospel of Gomer

I saw a meme on Facebook the other day in reference to the invasion of Ukraine that said, “This is what you get when you

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The Empty Pew Pandemic

Eugene Peterson once wrote to his congregation, “It makes little difference to me whether there are few or many in this place. . . .

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