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AssortedSong of Songs (A Christine Farenhorst Christmas story)
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a…
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Church historyThere was a man: Ulrich Zwingli
“Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them.” – Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). “Start children…
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Book excerptsEdith Cavell: a brave guide
Some 150 years ago, on December 4, 1865, English woman Edith Cavell was born. And 100 years ago, on October 12, 1915, during the First…
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Articles – BooksJoin RP’s Bucket List Book Club
Make 2026 the year you start reading again! Books we’ve done so far this year 1. February – The Grace and Truth Paradox by Randy…
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MagazineNov/Dec 2025 issue
WHAT’S INSIDE: You can’t fight screens with nothing Given how popular our summer screen-fast challenge was, it’s evident that our tech usage is an issue…
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AssortedSliver Mustard’s journey
Perhaps as many as a million people lived in Noah’s Grove. A thriving community, it had begun small but had grown over decades and centuries….
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Adult non-fictionUpheld: A widow’s story of love, grief, & the constancy of God
by Christine Farenhorst 2025 / 252 pages Rating: Good/Great/GIFT Anyone who has ever loved is going to face loss, and what are we to do…
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Recent ArticlesThe “Watchmaker argument”
Two hundred years ago a bishop, by the name of William Paley, wrote a book in which he used a watch to illustrate how clear…
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AssortedHow to write
***** Everyone has at least one article in them – I’m convinced that’s true. It doesn’t matter who I’m talking to, they all have a…
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MagazineNov/Dec 2024 issue
WHAT’S INSIDE: I’m graduating – now what? / Thriving at a non-Christian university? / 10 lessons learned at 8 post-secondary institutions / Podcasts to get…
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Amazing stories from times pastFour days in the life of Albert Tenfold
What you’ll find below is a Reformed Perspective tradition that started back in the winter of 1991 – 31 years ago! Each year since then,…
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Book ReviewsAfterwards I Knew: stories from the First and Second World Wars
by Christine Farenhorst 2010, 208 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give When it comes to this author, I am not an objective reviewer – I love every story Christine…
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Book ReviewsThe Great Escape
by Christine Farenhorst 2002 / 182 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give Christine Farenhorst is a superb storyteller. The Great Escape is a collection of forty short stories…
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Book listsThe RP 52 in 22 challenge
If you’re a reader, there’s a good chance you have a stack of books somewhere that you’ve really been meaning to get to. But, what…
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Dying WellCome, sweet death, Come blessed rest!
Last week, while working in the backyard, I chanced to speak with one of our neighbors. There is only a wire fence separating our properties…
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Book ReviewsThe New Has Come
by Christine Farenhorst 2022 / 262 pages Rating: Good/GREAT/Give I’ve seen another reviewer suggest that this might be Christine Farenhorst’s best book yet, and I…
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Adult biographiesListen! Six Men You Should Know
by Christine Farenhorst 161 pages / 2021 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give The six men we get introduced to here are given 25-30 pages each which is enough…
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Articles – MoviesSecond-hand Scriptures: a case against biblical dramas
The “telephone game” goes by many different names but it’s always played the same way. A number of children sit in a circle and the…
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AssortedSuffer Annie Spence
The smooth money resting in John’s calloused hand equaled his small plot of land; a few acres lay on a roughened palm. It had only…
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ParentingA Tale of Two Fathers
“…even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love He…
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AssortedA matter of seeing: decay and delights to consider
Some years back we rented a little island cottage north of Kingston, Ontario, sight unseen, for the first week of July. The fact that in…
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AssortedWoven Together
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the…
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Amazing stories from times pastArchbishop Ussher and being fully known
It is a very special thing to be known, to have someone look at you and understand you and love you simultaneously. My father lost…
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Adult fictionHidden: Stories of War and Peace
by Christine Farenhorst 303 pages / 2020 Rating: GOOD/Great/Give “I was a Stranger” is reason enough to pick up Christine Farenhorst’s newest short story collection. The…
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Book excerpts
Edith Cavell: a brave guide
Some 150 years ago, on December 4, 1865, English woman Edith Cavell was born. And 100 years ago, on October 12, 1915, during the First…
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NewsThe Top 10 articles of 2019
It’s said that the Internet is causing people to have shorter attention spans. If that’s true, you can’t look to our most popular articles of 2019…
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AssortedI Have A Son Seven Years Old; He is to me full dear…
This a short story about World War II, the immigrant experience…and much more Chapter 1. The teacher Perhaps it is true that one’s conscience is…
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Book excerptsThe Reformation comes to Strasbourg
This past year we celebrated the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, and with the focus on Luther, but also other big names like Calvin, Knox…
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AssortedWhat are we to make of gambling?
And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses….
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ParentingOn reading together
It used to be, a generation and a half or so ago, that reading out loud was family entertainment. My own childhood memories – although…
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AssortedGo to the ant, you sluggard…
“Go to the ant, you sluggard consider its ways, and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provision in…
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AssortedTo be known
It is a good thing to be known, that is to say, to be familiarly recognized. When someone greets you by your first name and…
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AssortedOn being separated
“For this reason the Father loves Me because I lay down my life in order that I may take it up again. No one has…
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AssortedAfterward…
Then David crept up unnoticed and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. Afterward David was conscience-stricken for having cut off a corner of his robe (1…
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AssortedIf only for this life we have hope in Christ…
But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of…
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NewsTop 10 RP articles of 2017
At year’s end it seemed a good opportunity to review the top articles of 2017. This past year we changed from being a subscription-based print…
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AssortedThe Gift: an allegory of sorts
“Why do you always have that small string wrapped around the top button of your sweater, father?” The father smiled at his son. “Have I never…
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Adult fictionKatharina, Katharina: the story of Katharina Schutz Zell
by Christine Farenhorst 328 pages / 2017 Rating: Good/GREAT/Give In the past year, inspired by the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing up his 95…
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Book listsLearning about Luther: 10 titles your family will enjoy
Five hundred years ago a learned monk drew up 95 pointed arguments and asked for a debate. What he got was a revolution. Fast forward…
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People we should knowJacobus Arminius: professed the confessions even as he opposed them
The baby, baptized Jacob Harmenszoon, lay contentedly in his mother’s arms. Warmth, food and love sheltered his small physical being. Even though his father was…
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Religion – Roman CatholicJorge’s Heresy
People might not think they know Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina. As a matter of fact, when asked, most will probably say they’ve never heard…
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AssortedChoice words – a queen’s folly
***** There is an old adage which says, “Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.” Another saying rightly puts…
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Children’s non-fictionThe Sweet Taste of Providence: 74 devotional episodes from history
by Christine Farenhorst 2016 / 296 pages Rating: GOOD/Great/Give Seventy-four! When Christine Farenhorst comes out with a new collection of short stories, the big question I…
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ArticleAuthors List
Reformed perspective authors Order alphabetically by First Name AAaron Bosscher (15)Aaron Reyburn (1)Adam Walter (1)Adolph Dykstra (3)Al Bezuyen (31)Al Siebring (1)Albert Van der Linden (1)Albertos…
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AssortedRemembering the head nurse and other people
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands. (Ps. 143:5) ***** Hope deferred, Proverbs…