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Twenty Twenty Two: Year-end review & reflections

And just like that we come to the end of another calendar year. Here are some snapshots, highlights, and reflections from the year of teaching, scholarship, ministry, and family life. Teaching at Dordt I taught five courses this year: Biblical Foundations, Aesthetics, Ethics, Leadership &…
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December 16, 2022
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Summer Report: Where I’ve been…

A baseball game (White Sox vs Twins) with my friend Matt - great seats! One of the very best things about working in higher education is getting to follow the rhythms of the academic calendar. In between the spring and fall semester is this three…
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August 12, 2022
Book ReviewsBooks

The Logic of Limitations: A Review of “The Common Rule”

Title: The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction Author: Justin Whitmel EarleyPublisher: InterVarsity PressPublishing Date: February 19, 2019Pages: 160 (Paperback)ISBN: 978-0830845606 I once had a wise pastor tell me that while my twenties would be about learning what I can do, my thirties would be about learning what…
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June 13, 2019
Book ReviewsBooks

Putting Grace back in the Doctrines: A Review of “Humble Calvinism”

Title: Humble CalvinismAuthor: J.A. MeddersPublisher: The Good Book CompanyPublishing Date: March 1, 2019Pages: 128 pages (Paperback)ISBN: 978-1784983727 Collin Hansen describes the popular resurgence of Calvinist doctrine in the first decade of the twentieth century in three words: young, restless, and Reformed. “The New Calvinism,” identified at the time with leaders like…
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April 26, 2019
Articles & EssaysShort Articles

Beyond Hero Stories

Last November, the 26-year-old missionary named John Allen Chau was killed on North Sentinel Island. Home to a remote and protective tribe, travel to the island is against the law. But Chau felt himself compelled by a higher call, and paid fishermen to sneak him…
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March 19, 2019