Category: Blog
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Patriarchy
Read More: PatriarchyPatriarchy has been a problem, not because it’s some grand conspiracy, but because of a lack of good will.
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Wilderness Windows
Read More: Wilderness WindowsI like to imagine what it was like then — my neighbourhood, or ravine-riven Toronto, or the Sarnia savannah. It would be nice, just once, to hike through old woods from the lake shore to the escarpment or High Park to Forest Hill, or along the beach from Centennial to Bright’s Grove, and see nothing…
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Nikolaikirche
Read More: NikolaikircheNicholai Church in Leipzig was the beating heart of East Germany’s Monday demonstrations that led to the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 some 36 years ago
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Vennekerk 2023
Read More: Vennekerk 2023This is the story of our van der Laan reunion worship service, the summer of 2023, in the now abandoned Vennekerk, the church where my parents came of age.
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Another Good Friday
Read More: Another Good FridayHerman de Jong’s prose story of “A Good Friday” has been with me for as long as he’s been gone — twenty-one years now. I wish I had known it before then, just as I wish I could have talked to him about it.
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Welcome to Middledom
Read More: Welcome to MiddledomI’ve committed to buckling down for a while to translate and reissue the collected works of Herman de Jong in an accessible format and adding in what family histories I have.
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Blog
Read More: BlogThese are the occasional blog posts of Henry J. de Jong on this Middledom website, which also features Dutch Canadian memoirs and the stories of Henry’s father, Herman de Jong.
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I am Indigenous
Read More: I am IndigenousThe parallels between indigenous peoples, like those from Canada or northern Holland, are significant.
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City on a Hill
Read More: City on a HillI can never relive the experience of Amiens Cathedral, even after all the time I spent in its cavernous space that summer of 2023.
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Full Circle
Read More: Full CircleMy father had no idea of his Reformed lineage; that his granddaughter would become a pastor and that he had generations of ‘dominees’ in his family.