putting into practice
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Easter in the Rear View Mirror
Looking backward and forward in the present
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Arand’s Stopover
It’s fall. And the Fall migrations are underway.
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It’s Out!
A month ago or so, I mentioned that a “small catechism” version (about thirty pages or so) of Together With All Creatures: Caring for God’s…
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Burning Coals and Korans
What to do with enemies?
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More on Chickens
In his introduction to Wendell Berry’s recent book, Bringing it to the Table, Michael Pollan observes that one of Berry’s favorite quotes comes from British…
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Check it Out!
The summer issue of the Concordia Journal (published by the faculty of Concordia Seminary) has just come out and its centered on the theme of…
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NYG—New Orleans II
While at the National Youth Gathering in New Orleans, a gentleman from Southern Illinois approached me after my presentation and asked, “why hasn’t the church…
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God Made Room for Them—Can We?
Norman Wirzba develops the theme of extending hospitality to all of God’s creatures in his book, The Paradise of God . He notes that hospitality…
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Rogationtide
Earth Day last month made me wonder why we don’t have a similar day within the church. We wouldn’t have to call it “Earth Sunday”…