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2023-196 Why am I still a Christian?
[I wrote this essay for our church newsletter. It is an essay that has been percolating for a long time.] Why am I still a Christian? It’s a fair question these days. Folks who identify as Christians have been loud hateful noises of late and aligning themselves on the side of the oppressor rather than the oppressed. Even my home church has declared that I am no longer quite orthodox enough, me being an LGBTQ+ supporter and all. I cannot remember a time when I was not a member of a Christian Reformed Church somewhere. When the church that has nurtured me all my life no longer has a place for me and my friends, it calls everything into question. So, why am I still a Christian? The short answer is that the Bible refuses to let me go. When I was in Army flight school fifty years ago, I hooked up with the Navigators, a very fine organization whose mantra is, “To know Christ and make him known.” They challenged me to read the Bible all the way through each year. I have been doing so ever
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2014-052 Balm for the soul
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Happiness is a warm puppy. Aww. Yes, there is much sadness in this broken world. Thankfully, the sadness is not the whole story. Despite all our efforts to destroy each other and our environment there remains, by the grace of God, a wealth of beauty and goodness, and even delight. You pause for a moment while shoveling the snow and catch the sun glinting through the snow that still hangs in the air. You stand by the pond in the wood with the fog dripping silence. The sun finds a hole in the overcast and the Autumn forest comes to life. A single p
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2024-008 The treeline south
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2024-007 The pond by the road, brightly
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2023-359 Looking up, for Christmas Day
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2023-347 Dancing in the heavens
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2023-308 One last flare by the upper falls bridge
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