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Apr 10, 2012 Uncategorized

On Becoming a Teachable Spirit

Burning questions on how God reaches out to teenagers, how their grains of faith can be sustained, and in what ways the urban church can share the gospel with city kids.

Apr 5, 2012 Uncategorized

Lent with Leonard

Leonard Cohen develops Old Ideas for surviving the Lenten desert: a “manual for living with defeat.”

Apr 4, 2012 Uncategorized

Surprising Evidences of Unity

Knowing where we overlap, and where we differ, allows all of us to be more effective witnesses in the public square.

Apr 2, 2012 Uncategorized

False Faces and Quieting Passions

SIX QUESTIONS . . . Today, unfortunately, Christianity has two false faces: the first is a strong but angry and uncaring face, while the second is a sweet, saccharine, permissive face. Neither one is Christian.

Mar 30, 2012 Uncategorized

Life-Long Learners 15.0

Fifteenth in an expert series on must-read books.

Mar 28, 2012 Uncategorized

The Grand Rapids Intellectuals

The Reformed Journal bridged the ethno-religious subculture of Dutch-Calvinist America and the wider academy, and it served as an incubator for several household names in Christian scholarship.

Mar 26, 2012 Uncategorized

On Satire

Jokes: a sophisticated form of border patrol and, in parody especially, correction.

Mar 23, 2012 Uncategorized

Redeeming the Time: A Meditation on the Spirituality of Night

Now we have come to the setting of the sun and behold the light of evening.

Mar 21, 2012 Uncategorized

Of Education and an Integrated Life

Despite its hazards, homeschooling also provides an unparalleled remedy for a splintered existence.

Mar 19, 2012 Uncategorized

If Money Can’t Buy You Love—or Happiness—What Can?

These two books help us understand how the pursuit of happiness or a full identity is enhanced or diminished by being part of an organization but their anthropologies are thin and instrumental.

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