He was Arrested
Fraught describes conditions in Romania in the years immediately following World War II. Tensions between social groups was exacerbated...
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Beth Lantinga
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Literature or Liturgy, Pastor or Professor?
When Denes Fulop was finishing secondary school, his dearest hope was to attend university to study literature and writing. But his...
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Beth Lantinga
- Apr 11, 2020
- 4 min
Who Was Denes Fulop?
I suppose that we can never say we truly know another person; sometimes it’s hard to understand ourselves much less the heart and mind of...
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Beth Lantinga
- Apr 5, 2020
- 5 min
Why I am a political orphan
A few weeks ago, a reader challenged me to say what I really think. I had planned to do just that in a long series of posts detailing the...
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Beth Lantinga
- Apr 3, 2020
- 3 min
Why the Genevan Psalter?
The Genevan Psalms for the 21st century? By the time I had worshipped in other Hungarian Reformed churches, I recognized many of the...
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Beth Lantinga
- Mar 30, 2020
- 3 min
What Next?
A New Direction Each encounter and each new image of communism’s grinding reality in Ukraine resurrected memories of my father’s belief...
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Beth Lantinga
- Mar 26, 2020
- 2 min
A Gypsy Story
Our Sunday included a visit to the gypsy church in the village of Nagydobrony. We were carrying a bell to present to the congregation for...
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Beth Lantinga
- Mar 21, 2020
- 3 min
Pictures of Faith
Sometimes I surprise myself. Searching for some documents from the 1998 trip to Ukraine, I discovered the text of one of my lectures....
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Beth Lantinga
- Mar 18, 2020
- 2 min
Snapshots of History
Established in 1992, the Ars Longa Foundation was concerned with reaching the young with a vision for the future shaped by a Reformed...
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Beth Lantinga
- Mar 7, 2020
- 2 min
Listening to the Teachers
The conference sessions were held in classrooms of the Reformed high school in the village of Peterfalva, Ukraine. We stayed in the...
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Beth Lantinga
- Feb 27, 2020
- 4 min
My Introduction to Hungary and Ukraine
The three of us conference leaders traveled separately, and I was the first to arrive in Budapest a day before the others.
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Beth Lantinga
- Feb 25, 2020
- 5 min
Living the Vision
After my second year of college, I married my heart-mate. Fortunately, he had and still has a calm and thoughtful demeanor that has saved...
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Beth Lantinga
- Feb 19, 2020
- 3 min
Transition Time
The summer before I entered the eighth grade, our family moved from the farm to Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Beth Lantinga
- Feb 11, 2020
- 4 min
Living in the "Right"
I grew up on an 80-acre farm near the tiny town of Burnips in Allegan County, Michigan. For the longest while there were six of us kids at h
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