The Immigrant

When I visit a town I always search out old bookstores for I find that in these places there are myriad books which have long been forgotten. Each...
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Retired Couple's Engagement Photo...

A very special engagement photo has gone viral, showcasing the head-over-heels love of a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher and 67-year-old retired...
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People of the Book

I've seen several iterations of this online, and each time it makes me annoyed. Someone posts some wildly inaccurate meme about a biblical story....
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Exchanges Down Under Part 3:...

Meditations on what I’m being taught by spending a year away from my family and community on a professorial exchange between Avondale College and...
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Taste Is Key

A man on a mission, vegetarian butcher Jaap Korteweg is motivated by three things: making quality culinary products, freeing animals from the food...
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I Give Up

I’m sitting here without a plan. I do not even have a rough outline of where these thoughts will go. If I have a plan, it is simply to write because...
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Ode to Curiosity

Curiosity has a bad reputation. It is certainly not one of the generally accepted Christian virtues, and that is a shame. Curiosity takes us deeper...
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Exchanges Down Under Part 2:...

I’m sitting in a college café filled with energized students, and the noise is unrelenting and optimistic. I’m looking out onto a green lawn with...
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Living Family Life

When I was a kid—way back in the 1900s—there were a ton of sitcoms that capitalized on “unconventional” families. Who's the Boss?, Full House, My Two...
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Why You're Not a Cultural...

If you hang around churches long enough, you will hear the term thrown around. It shows up around Nominating Committee time: "Person X isn't...
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