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For the Love of a Tree

Across the stream behind my late-boyhood home in Cascade, Michigan, there stretched a forest where hepaticas bloomed purple and pink in the spring, profusions of trilliums scattered like popcorn beneath the understory, and colonies of downy rattlesnake plantain and shining … Continue reading

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Enoch: The Man Who Walked with God

The things one discovers in the Scriptures in unexpected places! This excerpt from the early genealogies in Genesis, for instance: When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch. After he became the father of Enoch, Jared … Continue reading

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Ridiculous?

I was lying on the couch, halfway between awake and asleep, when the difference between Christianity and every other non-derivative world religion struck me. It is this: Christianity is premised on something that simply cannot happen. A dead man rising? … Continue reading

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