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In June, I wrote a letter to Rockford University students wherein I said: “Our mission is to educate our student body to be better prepared to make change…
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As I contemplated what to write for this edition of perspectives, my mind kept returning to the recent day when my son returned from his freshman year of…
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I found wisdom this winter in the strangest of places, as one often does. It was in the dark, sitting next to my daughter, who is four years old.Before us…
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I am a 46-year-old Star Wars fan. I have read all the new books and watched all the animated series. I preordered Disney+ several months early just so I…
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Pull the ball and it would land in the neighbor’s backyard. During street football, the braver ones among us would take to the small strip of grass…
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“The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.” This quote, from Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible, the tongue squarely in cheek musical – released online…
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Midway through Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers asks Nick Fury how he is doing. He responds, and I am paraphrasing: “Before today I would have said there’s…
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I started and stopped three different perspectives this week, each time asking the question: what matters my perspective? Whether I discuss politics, the…
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Despite the wickedness brought by the winter’s weather, I am already beginning to sense the inevitability of spring. The beginning of a thaw. It always…
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Studying the book of Mark in my adult Sunday school class recently got me thinking about a question I have always liked to ponder: at what point did Mary…