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Clergy Confetti?

priest with brightly colored bacground

In my work as an editor, I continue to collect editorial bloopers. The following sentence appeared in an article that encouraged VBS leaders to make program adjustments for students who…

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An Editor’s Job…

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Think being an editor is a cushy job? Besides checking em dashes and spellings and verifying quotes, editors of Christian material have an added responsibility: making sure that God’s Word…

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A Major Sacrifice

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“This devotional for teens . . . provides a strong visual demonstration of what it means to offer their lives as a burnt offering to God.” [We know what that…

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Of Mice Rats and Men

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To be a country where everything is small, Japan certainly has large mice. Over here, we’d call them rats; but the Japanese call them mice. (That is, the Japanese word…

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The Cemetery

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There is definitely something odd going on at the Peaceful Acres Cemetery. I had driven there with Aunt Ellen, who was feeling poorly and thought a nice ride through the…

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