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By Chris Horst
For two summers during college, I worked ten-hour days under the hot and humid Pennsylvania sun as a mason tender—or more commonly, as a mud boy. I mixed concrete, hauled cement blocks and attempted to assist our masons. Some days I lugged, stacked, and mixed like a champ. Other days I became the target of creative expletives.…
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By Abraham Kuyper
Creation was fashioned by God, fashioned with life that surges and scintillates in its bosom, fashioned with the powers that lie dormant in its womb. Yet, lying there, it displayed but half its beauty. Now, however, God crowns it with humanity, who awakens its life, arouses its powers, and with human hands brings to light the…
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By Joseph Sunde
For many evangelicals, 2 Chronicles 7:14 has become a predictable refrain for run-of-the-mill civil religion, supposedly offering the promise of national blessing in exchange for political purity.
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I…
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By Jordan Ballor
UCLA recently made the audio available of a speech given by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., just over a month after the march from Selma to Montgomery. King addresses a number of topics, including the debate surrounding the Voting Rights Act. You can listen to the whole thing here.
At one point in the speech, King stops to…
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By Anthony Bradley
The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., like that of most mortals, evokes a certain ambivalence regarding what should be celebrated and what should be rightly critiqued. There are certainly parts of his life and thinking that warrant correction, rebuke, and challenge, but this will be true of all us if we live long enough.…
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This post originally appeared at the Denver Institute for Faith and Work, where Mr. Haanen is executive director. It is republished here with permission.
By Jeff Haanen
Occasionally you meet somebody that shines with such virtue that you are, perhaps for the first time, made aware of your own poverty of spirit.
When I met Greg Thompson during…
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