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Blog Revive Us Again In Yorkshire, my wife and I attended an Evensong service, a hymnsing really, which remembered Billy Graham’s 1954 London crusade.David HoekemaNovember 16, 2023
Blog Hot or Cold? My memory—and my perceptions as a child—may not be correct, but I wonder what cold topics my kids overhear today’s…Dana VanderLugtNovember 15, 2023
Blog Now and Then (and the One to Come) A cartoon that made the rounds on social media around the time of the Fall time change a week ago…Scott HoezeeNovember 14, 2023
Blog An Unsung Hero of World War II “I’m no hero,” Chester Nez chuckles. “I just wanted to serve my country.” Nez grew up in New Mexico, and…Rebecca KoerselmanNovember 13, 2023
Blog Lessons from my students: The Bible Teenagers are learning calculus and physics, but in church, they do not learn about the complexities of the Bible.Lynn JapingaNovember 12, 2023
Blog How to Live at the End of the World But what to do with this whiz-bang of a passage from Mark, where Jesus instructs the disciples about impending doom?Debra RienstraNovember 11, 2023
Blog Things we carry I'm working away on something, when Alexa offers me "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair," ancient Americana…James C. SchaapNovember 10, 2023
Blog Impulse I stayed to stare down the furies of chaos and despair. I stayed because this place and these people provide…Tim Van DeelenNovember 9, 2023