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While reading through Nicholas Wolterstorff's powerful book Lament for a Son, I came across this moving description of how tragic loss leaves a hole that cannot be replaced. In this book Wolterstorff, who taught philosophy at Calvin College, the Free University in Amsterdam, Notre Dame, and Yale, chronicles his own journey through grief after the …
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falling fast in a dark shaftwith no handholds or bottom below cast out on rough seas alonestruggling to stay above the waves walking ghostly among the corporeal worldor like the only fleshly body in a landscape of phantoms nauseous stomach like something within needs to be expelledyet empty inside with a sucking black hole fixed …
I was talking with a friend the other day about some of the changes we have experienced during the pandemic. Some of them were simple—activities we could no longer enjoy or places we could no longer visit—and others were more complex—missed milestones in our lives, friends and family members suffering with sickness, and concerns about …
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Tonight at our regular 2nd Tuesday Worship and Prayer gathering at Eastbrook, we will have a special prayer service for those who have experienced pain in the loss of an infant or unborn child through miscarriage, the loss of a young child, regretted abortion, or the long ache of infertility. This gathering is open to …
As we continued our celebration of Jesus' resurrection at Eastbrook Church, I continued the themes of our series "The Good News of Jesus." This second weekend, we explored four post-resurrection appearances of Jesus to Mary, the disciples as a group, Thomas, and Peter in John 20:11-21:25. Each of these stories gives us insight into the …
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Matthew Erickson 