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Remember, Mortal!

BookTrends - Letters from the Land of Cancer

We had just buried Phyllis’s father. The death had not been sudden. He had been an elderly gentleman, failing for a while, then dying neither in pain nor in disgrace.

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Studebaker

BookTrends - Thin Places: A Memoir

At four years old, long before seat belt laws, I crouch down on the floor of my father’s dying Studebaker, pressing my left eye to the rusted floor where a convenient hole the size of my kneecap beckons.

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Rethinking Social Justice

BookTrends - Seek Social Justice: Transforming Lives in Need Study Guide

“What’s really going on here?” That’s the first question to ask when we fnd people in need. The answers should guide us to respond in ways that can make a lasting difference.

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The Heart of Lent

40 Days of 4-giveness

The most powerful worship experience of my life happened at last year’s Saturday Easter vigil at my church in Washington, D.C.

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Mission Marm and Apple Guy

BookTrends: The Meeting of the Waters

It was 2:00 a.m., and the knocking on the locked iron door was getting louder. It kept coming as I slid out of bed, stumbled in the dark to the door, and groped for the big ring of keys hanging on the wall.

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The Faith of the Founders

How Christian Were They?

One of today’s most contentious culture wars is over the religious commitments of our nation’s founders.

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The Social Gospel and Eternity

The Importance of Worldview

In his book Social Salvation, the Rev. Washington Gladden says that we must not worry about men’s souls, but their earthly work.

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The Image of God and the Failure of Scientific Atheism

BookTrends - God is Great; God is Good, ed. William Lane Craig and Chad Deister

One of the roles of a worldview is to provide an explanation of facts, of reality the way it actually is.

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A Divine GPS

God's Perfect Will

My wife, Leni, and I have entertained friends riding with us in our Corolla more than once as we drive around the maze that is Northern Virginia and Suburban Maryland.

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What Holiness Is, and Why It Matters

BookTrends - Rediscovering Holiness

Our grandfather clock, which tells us not only the hours, minutes and seconds but also the days of the week, the months of the year, and the phases of the moon, is something of a veteran.

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A Place for Heroes?

Why They Are Still Worth Following

Recently, I read an article that called for a boycott of ministry heroes. It wasn’t high-profile ministers that were the problem.

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Unexpected Journey

BookTrends: It Happened in Italy

Meeting Walter Wolff was a bit of a miracle, for many rea­sons. First, he is a Holocaust survivor, and anyone who survived the Holocaust is, by definition, a miracle.

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