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The Days of Our Lives

Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read

Umbilically-connected. After many years of marriage, I have slowly seen that my wife Meg’s soul is bound up with the souls of her children. It cannot be otherwise, and while...

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A New Temperance Movement

Rev. Dr. Bill Fullilove | 8 min read

Will it be any better the next time? For several years, the trifecta of COVID, an election, and race tore churches apart. What was obviously missing was that pesky fellow...

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Religious Freedom: An Essential Lyric for Human Flourishing

Erin Rodewald | 10 min read

Some people, many in fact, believe the absence of religion would make for a happier, more peaceful existence here on planet earth. In the early 1970s, John Lennon enshrined that...

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“Goodbye Lenin!” and the Failure of the Marxist Vision

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

“Workers of the world unite— all you have to lose are your chains!” The terrible irony of Marx’s challenge to the 19th-century is that wherever his revolution went, workers were...

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Westminster, Race & Justice

Rev. Dr. Irwyn Ince | 10 min read

As an ordained minister within the Presbyterian Church in America, I “sincerely received and adopted the Confession of Faith and the Catechisms of this Church.” This is a reference to...