Doug's Substack
Douglas BrouwerMusings at the intersection of faith and life
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The Night on the Mountain
Over a year ago, First Presbyterian Church in Holland, Michigan, hosted the launch party for my most recent book, The Traveler’s Path. Forty or fifty people — friends, family, and church members — were gathered in the church's M&M Café. Whe...
I Just Ended a Long Relationship With Football
This column first ran as my February 2023 column for the Holland Sentinel. I’m posting it now to my Substack as a bookend to the sportswriting story I posted a few days ago.
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My Brief Career as a Sports Writer
Last week I received a Google alert.
This happens less often than you might imagine, and when it does, it is rarely interesting. But this alert pointed me to an author archive at a website called GBM Wolverine — a fan site devoted to Unive...
The Luxury of Sameness
When I returned to the United States after five years in Switzerland, I expected reverse culture shock — the massive size of grocery stores, the sudden absence of bicycles, and the expectation to tip for every conceivable service. What I di...
A Pastoral Ruling on the Reclining of Airline Seats
I Know Things
The New Yorker recently took up one of the great moral questions of our age: should you recline your airplane seat? I read the piece with interest, and also with a certain professional irritation, the way a cardiologist m...
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A Presbyterian pastor for 45 years — most recently in Zürich, Switzerland — I am the author of seven nonfiction books, including The Traveler's Path (2026 Wilbur Award of Excellence) and the memoir Chasing After Wind.
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