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Archive for March, 2010

We’re on WordPress!

Posted by Nathan Bierma

After years of blogging happily on Blogger, we’ve moved to WordPress, the king of blogging platforms. This free, open source, endlessly customizable program enables us to use more advanced categories and tags, thumbnails for posts, plugins, and other possibilities that make WordPress so cool.

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Your Psalms Stories – Request from David Van Biema

Posted by Nathan Bierma

We were delighted to have David Van Biema, whose religion reporting you’ve probably read in Time magazine, with us at Symposium 2010. If you attended you may have seen the below request on a flyer. Please note that as David explains, if you responded to this request at or just after Symposium, you’re asked to respond again. We’ve given David a few ideas already of people to talk to, but we want to encourage everyone reading (not just Symposium attendees) to tell him your story (or point him to someone else’s.) Thanks in advance!

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A Spiritual Formation Retreat

Posted by CICW

Following the model of Jesus, who often “went off to a solitary place and prayed” (Mark 1:35), Calvin Christian High School teacher Scott De Young organized a spiritual retreat weekend at The Hermitage in Three Rivers, Michigan, for students and faculty from his school. Scott writes, “If you’re somewhat unfamiliar with the idea of spiritual [...]

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Visit to New Community Fourth Reformed Church, Holland, Michigan

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Posted by Betty Grit An energy and enthusiasm filled the sanctuary of New Community Fourth Reformed Church in Holland as worshipers gathered on a sunny March morning. The worship service would be entirely bilingual in English and Spanish. Music, prayers, Scripture and the sermon would be in both languages to engage people of both cultures. [...]

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Ancaster Book Group – Second Meeting

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Book Groups We invited 34 book groups across the U.S. and Canada to meet and discuss The Church of All Ages and its implications for their worship, and to share their notes here. Learn more Report from Jeff Klingenberg’s book group in Ancaster, Ontario: Storming, Norming, Performing Forming a book club during the Fall season [...]

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Ancaster Book Group – Third Meeting

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Book Groups We invited 34 book groups across the U.S. and Canada to meet and discuss The Church of All Ages and its implications for their worship, and to share their notes here. Learn more Report from Jeff Klingenberg’s book group in Ancaster, Ontario: Adjourning As the colours of Fall gave way to the gray [...]

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