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Scott Hoezee

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May Thoughts

Back when I joined the Perspectives magazine Board of Editors in 2000 (which even now does not sound all that long ago), I was struck

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Patience

As a non-Roman Catholic, I should probably tread lightly on practices and a history that I know at best second hand.  So if in what

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Credo

“Please, don’t ask me to believe anything.  Let’s stick with what we can know.” Those were the words of author Barbara Ehrenreich last week on

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Ti Gar and Gospel Audacity

Note: Today’s blog is a guest blog by my colleague Dr. John Bolt, Professor of Systematic Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary, and I thank John

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Is Happiness Dull?

This past Sunday in the “Bookends” back page column of the New York Times Book Review, writers Leslie Jamison and Adam Kirsch pondered some of

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Mardi Gras

I grew up in a decidedly non-liturgical tradition in the Christian Reformed Church.  In fact, I recently elicited gales of laughter from my colleagues on

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To Death

In the wonderfully comic and deeply poignant 1987 film Broadcast News, William Hurt plays Tom Grunick, an empty-headed but ruggedly handsome network news reporter who

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What’s Real

My own Facebook feed is probably too limited to be much of a bellwether on anything.   But across a weekend that featured both a Super

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Nebraska

Taking a cue from Jeff Munroe’s post yesterday about Oscar nominations, in this posting I will muse briefly on one of this year’s Oscar contenders:

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