Blog Building a Boat My kids have a favorite new show: “Alone.” It’s a reality show where survival experts are dropped off in remote…Kate KooymanDecember 17, 2020
Blog The Hat Trick Semester In my last posting here, I introduced you to jazz bagpipes as a metaphor for COVID-Thanksgiving. I was fascinated by…Jennifer L. HolbergDecember 16, 2020
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Blog Barring Eleventh Hour Trickery The Electoral College vote will be taken today and Joe Biden will officially be named President-elect. Eighty-one million voters will…Jeff MunroeDecember 14, 2020
Blog Advent is for the Excluded — Shepherds “In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.” - Luke 2:8…April FietDecember 13, 2020
Blog The Evil Done on Our Behalf In Zoom worship last Sunday, we said a prayer that we’ve said many times before, part of our prayers for…Allison Vander BroekDecember 12, 2020
Blog Political Iconoclasm Like everyone else, I'm trying to negotiate the aftermath of a divisive election that has fractured my corner of the…Jason LiefDecember 11, 2020
Blog Searching for Joy Last week I sat perched in my favorite perching place, where fallen tree meets standing tree. The Y-branches of the…Laura de JongDecember 10, 2020
Blog Secrets I am about to share one of my deepest, darkest, most shameful secrets with you. It is a part of…Beth CarrollDecember 9, 2020
Blog The Worst in Us Experts from the fields of psychology and neurology claim that our memory is susceptible to error. Sometimes we are sure…Scott HoezeeDecember 8, 2020