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Growing In Global Perspectives: A Book Conversation Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Hannah Landman, Jaelyn Dragt, Eoghan Holdahl, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang Apr 2023

Growing In Global Perspectives: A Book Conversation Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Hannah Landman, Jaelyn Dragt, Eoghan Holdahl, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang

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"... God uses the oppressed to represent Jesus, the Savior, in [the Good Neighbor] story."

Posting about the book Reading the Bible Around the World from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/growing-in-global-perspectives-a-book-conversation-of-reading-the-bible-around-the-world/



Growing In Global Perspectives: A Review Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Eoghan Holdahl, Jaelyn Dragt, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang, Hannah Landman Apr 2023

Growing In Global Perspectives: A Review Of Reading The Bible Around The World, Eoghan Holdahl, Jaelyn Dragt, Joya Schreurs, Susan Wang, Hannah Landman

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"Effects of colonization, refuge seeking, and persecution affect how communities interpret meaning in Scripture."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book Reading the Bible Around the World from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/growing-in-global-perspectives-a-review-of-reading-the-bible-around-the-world/


Those Who Came Before Us: A Review Of Tell Her Story, Hannah Landman Mar 2023

Those Who Came Before Us: A Review Of Tell Her Story, Hannah Landman

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"Gupta’s book offers a refreshing look at women in ministry before, during, and after Jesus’s time on earth."

Posting about the book Tell Her Story from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/those-who-came-before-us-a-review-of-tell-her-story/


Apocalyptic Films: Don't Look Up, A Case Study, Elyse Kuperus Feb 2023

Apocalyptic Films: Don't Look Up, A Case Study, Elyse Kuperus

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"This idea that in the end, while science can offer reasoning and understanding, only faith can offer comfort, is not lost on the characters, and should not be lost on the viewer either."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the movie Don't Look Up from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/apocalyptic-films-dont-look-up-a-case-study/


Apocalyptic Films: Questions To Ask, Elyse Kuperus Feb 2023

Apocalyptic Films: Questions To Ask, Elyse Kuperus

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"When faced with our own world falling down around us, how will we act? Where will we turn?"

Posting about evaluating cinema from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/apocalyptic-films-questions-to-ask/


Topics Christians Should Discuss: Mass Incarceration (Part 1), Joya Schreurs Jan 2023

Topics Christians Should Discuss: Mass Incarceration (Part 1), Joya Schreurs

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"Our actions both can and should be direct refusals of injustice and infused with compassion for all impacted parties."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the prison crisis from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/topics-christians-should-discuss-mass-incarceration-part-1/


People And Places: The Evidence Of Holiness, Hannah Landman, Kara Jasper Sep 2022

People And Places: The Evidence Of Holiness, Hannah Landman, Kara Jasper

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"Gilded altars, carved marble, nuances of light, brilliant colored glass contribute to telling a story—the story of scripture and the story of the church in this place."

Posting about reflections of the choir's European tour from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/people-and-places-the-evidence-of-holiness/


A Letter To A First Year Teacher, Crystal Strickland Aug 2022

A Letter To A First Year Teacher, Crystal Strickland

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"Be the person who helps others see the good in themselves."

Posting about encouragement for new teachers from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/a-letter-to-a-first-year-teacher/


"Dancing In The Minefields": A Review Of The Nicene Option, Rylan Brue Mar 2022

"Dancing In The Minefields": A Review Of The Nicene Option, Rylan Brue

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"The Nicene Option is not an invitation to retreat, but to participate without fear."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the book The Nicene Option from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/dancing-in-the-minefields-a-review-of-the-nicene-option-2/


Voice Of The Villains: The Attraction Of And Response To Villain Retellings (Part 2), Lydia Jayaputra Feb 2022

Voice Of The Villains: The Attraction Of And Response To Villain Retellings (Part 2), Lydia Jayaputra

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"While villain retellings show that perspective does indeed change our moral boundaries, theology begs us to remember that God’s perspective, being all-encompassing, cannot be wrong."

Posting about movie villains and their appeal from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/voice-of-the-villains-the-attraction-of-and-response-to-villain-retellings-part-2/


Nostalgia In Entertainment, Kara Jasper Feb 2022

Nostalgia In Entertainment, Kara Jasper

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"Nostalgia has the funny tendency to make us view the past in a way that is not consistent with reality."

Posting about the influence of popular entertainment from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/nostalgia-in-entertainment/


Blue Christmas, Kara Jasper Dec 2021

Blue Christmas, Kara Jasper

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"Our Savior dwelt among the broken, the directionless, and the melancholy."

Posting about Christmas hope from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/blue-christmas/


I Am A Part, Josie De Jong Nov 2021

I Am A Part, Josie De Jong

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"By throwing myself into the action of life, I’d lost nothing and gained everything."

Posting about the joy of volunteering from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/i-am-a-part/


Do You Want To Have A Catch?, Rylan Brue Sep 2021

Do You Want To Have A Catch?, Rylan Brue

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"We don’t actually want the past. We want our past to have meaning."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­fellowship and relationship from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/do-you-want-to-have-a-catch/


She Is To Remain Silent, Joya Schreurs Sep 2021

She Is To Remain Silent, Joya Schreurs

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"Women are not only prevented from exercising the full range of their spiritual gifts, but grapple with the message this sends about their worth as church members and simply as humans."

Posting about women in ministry from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/she-is-to-remain-silent/


More Than Just "Every Square Inch": A Review Of Contours Of The Kuyperian Tradition, Emily Vander Ploeg Aug 2021

More Than Just "Every Square Inch": A Review Of Contours Of The Kuyperian Tradition, Emily Vander Ploeg

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"Bartholomew allows readers to see multiple examples of ideas within the Kuyperian tradition relating to topics such as worldview, missions, and philosophy."

Posting about the book Contours of the Kuyperian Tradition from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/more-than-just-every-square-inch-a-review-of-contours-of-the-kuyperian-tradition/


Coral Reefs, Climate Change, And Ecological Lament, Chloe Hansum Jul 2020

Coral Reefs, Climate Change, And Ecological Lament, Chloe Hansum

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"What can I do to enhance creation’s song? How can I better care for all creatures great and small?"

Posting about a Christian response to ecological degradation from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/coral-reefs-climate-change-and-ecological-lament/


Discovering The Good In Good Friday, Allison Wordes Apr 2020

Discovering The Good In Good Friday, Allison Wordes

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"As we come to Good Friday, the end of Lent and a recounting of Jesus’ sufferings, I have to ask the question of 'What is Good?'"

Posting about ­­­­­­­­Easter reflections from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/discovering-the-good-in-good-friday/


Prodigal Theology For An Anxious Age: A Review Of On The Road With Saint Augustine, Aj Funk Oct 2019

Prodigal Theology For An Anxious Age: A Review Of On The Road With Saint Augustine, Aj Funk

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"Smith suggests that to be human is to be a refugee, longing for home, never quite being satisfied."

Posting about the book On the Road with Saint Augustine from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/prodigal-theology-for-an-anxious-age-a-review-of-on-the-road-with-saint-augustine/


Watering Hope, Katie Kooiman Apr 2019

Watering Hope, Katie Kooiman

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"In the cross of Christ, we find the most profound tension of opposites: life and death."

Posting about resurrection hope from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/watering-hope/


Certainty And Doubt, Ashley Huizinga Nov 2017

Certainty And Doubt, Ashley Huizinga

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"Our God is truly never-failing, never-ending. We trust the Bible’s assertion that He had no beginning and will have no end."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­God's faithfulness from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/certainty-and-doubt/


Not What My Hands Have Done, Ashley Bloemhof Oct 2017

Not What My Hands Have Done, Ashley Bloemhof

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"We know that we are called to live differently than the world, to live in a way that is set apart from those who live as if they are their own gods."

Posting about stepping out into a hurting world from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/not-what-my-hands-have-done/


From Frustration To Contentment, Ashley Huizinga Aug 2017

From Frustration To Contentment, Ashley Huizinga

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"Strive to bring—to be—contentment personified, as you surrender your circumstances to the Lord’s judgment."

Posting about trusting in God's purposes from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/from-frustration-to-contentment/


Longing For God, Ashley Bloemhof Jul 2017

Longing For God, Ashley Bloemhof

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"To thirst for God, to seek after His teachings and long for His presence, is to adopt the posture of the psalmist in Psalm 119."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­acknowledging our need for God from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/longing-for-god/


Christ The Conqueror, Anneke Wind Jul 2017

Christ The Conqueror, Anneke Wind

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"In a world that’s ridden with war, fear, and despair, God is bigger. God is greater."

Posting about God as our refuge­­­­­­­­ from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/christ-the-conqueror/


The Pervasive Power Of Leaven, Josh Bootsma Jun 2017

The Pervasive Power Of Leaven, Josh Bootsma

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"Even from the most humble, weak, and small beginnings, God can accomplish his purposes. In fact, he promises that he will."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­God's power through our weakness from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/the-pervasive-power-of-leaven/


Being His People, Tori Mann Jun 2017

Being His People, Tori Mann

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"In the Old Testament, God’s people were very clearly set apart from other nations, and they were given a set of laws to follow to guide them in how to live."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­being a member of God's kingdom from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/being-his-people/


Sobriety And Drunkenness: The New Sense And Sensibility, Ashley Huizinga May 2017

Sobriety And Drunkenness: The New Sense And Sensibility, Ashley Huizinga

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"Why contemplate the release, the so-called 'freedom' of drunkenness, when our Lord tells us to be sober and vigilant in order that we may fully enjoy the benefits of His presence and the gift of redemption He promises?"

Posting about ­­­­­­­­spiritual alertness from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/sobriety-and-drunkenness-the-new-sense-and-sensibility/


Promises Of God, Tori Mann May 2017

Promises Of God, Tori Mann

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"We can be sure that God will listen to the prayers of his people because of who he is: a God of righteousness, truth, and faithful love."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the assurance we have in Christ from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/the-promises-of-god/


Before, Beside, And Behind, Annie Sears May 2017

Before, Beside, And Behind, Annie Sears

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"God leading before me. Grace in everything beside me. Goodness following behind me."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­God's abiding presence from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

http://inallthings.org/before-beside-and-behind/