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Submissions from 2025

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Hands-on Parallel & Distributed Computing with Rasperry Pi Devices and Clusters, Elizabeth Shoop, Suzanne J. Matthews, Richard Brown, and Joel C. Adams

Submissions from 2024

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Engineering, Design and the Christian Faith with Dr. Derek Schuurman, Dr. Derek Schuurman

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“Arduous and Difficult to Obtain”: Teaching as a Hopeful Educational Practice, David I. Smith

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Usage Reporting and Analysis: Current Options and Future Opportunities, Katherine Swart, Tim Lloyd, and Tricia Miller

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A Day of Worship | Sam Ha | Calvin Seminary, Sam Ha

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The Problem with AI is Deeper Than You Think, Derek Schuurman

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Dr. Julie Yonker on Mental Health for Boys and Girls, Dr. Julie Yonker

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The Future Direction of Calvin Studies? Sam Ha (Calvin Conversations Series), Sam Ha

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Coaching America's Youngest College Football Team: My Plan, Trent Figg

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Artifical Intelligence in Academia, James E. Carpp and Crystal N. Bruxvoort

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This Land, Otto Selles

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Because of Who We Are: A Fresh Perspective on Calvin’s Doctrine of the Image of God and Human Dignity, Sam Neulsaem Ha

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Autism Awareness in the Church with Dr. Kevin Timpe, Kevin Timpe

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The Lifelong Journey of Inner Transformation, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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A country-level primary-final-useful (CL-PFU) energy and exergy database: overview of its construction and 1971–2020 world-level efficiency results, Paul E. Brockway, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Zeke Marshall, Emmanuel Aramendia, Paul Steenwyk, Thomas Relph, Michelle Widjanarko, Jeonghoo (James) Kim, Anjana Sainju, and Julian Irtube

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Estimation of useful-stage energy returns on investment for fossil fuels and implications for renewable energy systems, Emmanuel Aramendia, Paul E. Brockway, Peter G. Taylor, Jonathan B. Norman, Matthew K. Heun, and Zeke Marshal;

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On the right track? Energy use, carbon emissions, and intensities of world rail transportation, 1840–2020, Bernardo Tostes, Sofia T. Henriques, Paul E. Brockway, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Tiago Domingos, and Tânia Sousa

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Hearing Iterative and Recursive Behavior: Sonification Improves Student Understanding, Joel C. Adams and Hayworth Anderson

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Goal Attainment and Quality of Life through Inclusive College, Kate Strater, Mia Kurkechian, and Kassandra Weber

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Notes from the Cosmic Sea, James K.A. Smith

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Congenital Disabilities and Gender Nonconforming Identities as Parts of God’s Intended Creation, Loren Haarsma, Kevin Timpe, Liran Naranjo- Huebl, and Emily Helder

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Easy, Bright, Fluorescence Demonstration of Buffer Action, Mariana Dykstra, Yejin Chung, and Mark Muyskens

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CLPFUDatabase: A suite of R packages for energy conversion chain analysis, Matthew Kuperus Heun, Zeke Marshall, and Emmanuel Aramendia

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Directed Self-Placement for Multilingual, Multicultural International Students, Kristine Johnson and Sara Vander Bie

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María de San José Salazar’s Mount Carmel: Global Identity through the Natural World in Libro de las recreaciones, Alisa Tigchelaar, Antónia Conde, Fábio Mário, Luísa Vilela, and José Eduardo Franco

Submissions from 2023

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The Inevitability of Sin, Kevin Timpe

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The Advent Art of Waiting, Noah Toly

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A Tectonic Shift in Technology: The Pandemic Greatly Accelerated the Adoption of and Reliance on Technology Among Churches, Tyler Greenway

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From Incarceration to Integration: A Critical Analysis of Reentry Care in Prison Education Programs in West Michigan, Emily Steen and Mark Mulder

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The Practice of Virtue Driven GIScience, Jason VanHorn

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On Miller 2011: twenty-five ASA fellows and editors tell of PSCF articles that changed their lives, Ryan Bebej

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With Whom Should One Worship? A Fresh Perspective on John Calvin’s Liturgical Theology of Physical Proximity and Spiritual Epidemic, Sam Neulsaem Ha

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Le role d'une universite confessionnelle dans le systeme educatif, Jolene Vos-Camy

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How Did the Landscape of Student Belonging Shift During COVID-19?, Shruti Misra, Neha Kardam, Jennifer VanAntwerp, and Denise Wilson

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The role of religion and faith in the psychological and spiritual lives of LGBTQ+ persons, Emily J. Helder and Ellen Jones

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Towards a Christian Understanding of Intersex and Transgender Identities: Key Questions, Linda Naranjo-Huebl

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Disability as Part of God's Intended Creation, Kevin Timpe

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Not a result of the Fall: entropy, earthquakes, malaria, mutations, and…?, Loren Haarsma

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ChatGPT and the Rise of AI, Derek C. Schuurman

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Ecuadorian Gravel Pack Spring Water Intakes, Derek Ten Pas, Julie Wildschut, Robert Hoeksema, Bruce Rydbeck, and Chris Visscher

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Weighing Compatibilism and Libertarianism in Analytic Theology, Kevin Timpe

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Une fee curieuse: Persinette de Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force, Jolene Vos-Camy

Submissions from 2022

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Rhetoric and Affect in Undergraduate Research: A Diary Study, Kristine Johnson and J. Michael Rifenburg

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Evaluating Filter Functionality and User Competence after a Hollow Fiber Membrane Filter Intervention in Liberia, Kristen R. Alford, Katherine D. Rosendale, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Randall J. Pruim, Jason E/ VanHorn, Abdul Hafiz Koroma, Matthew Bone, Adam DenHaan, Jamison Koeman, Sadie Kornoelje, Blerta Lika, Lydia Walls, Nathan Wang, and Jared Deighton

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The trichloroethylene metabolite S-(1,2-dichlorovinyl)-l-cysteine inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation transcriptomic pathways and cytokine secretion in a macrophage cell model, Sean M. Harris, Kelly M. Bakulski, John Dou, Ethan Houskamp, Eleanor Scheeres, Emily Schellenboom, Olivia Harlow, Rita Loch-Caruso, and Erica Boldenow

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Jennifer Holberg talks with Makoto Fujimura, Jennifer Holberg and Makoto Fujimura

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Advancing the Necessary Foundations for Empirical Energy Rebound Estimates: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis Framework, Matthew K. Heun, Gregor Semieniuk, and Paul E. Brockway

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Cognitive Disabilities, Forms of Exclusion, and the Ethics of Social Interactions, Kevin Timpe

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The Tails of Two Avian Schistosomes: Paired Exposure Study Demonstrates Trichobilharzia stagnicolae Penetrates Human Skin More Readily than a Novel Avian Schistosome from Planorbella, Nathaniel J. Anderson, Curtis L. Blankespoor, and Randall J. DeJong

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Reading The Irony of American History 70 years later, James K.A. Smith

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Seven Ways to Ruin Your Life, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung and Lee C. Camp

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Developing a Multi-Regional Physical Supply Use Table framework to improve the accuracy and reliability of energy analysis., Matthew K. Heun, Emmanuel Aramendia, Paul E. Brockway, and Peter G. Taylor

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Which moral exemplars inspire prosociality, Hyemin Han, Clifford I. Workman, Joshua May, and Payton Scholtens

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The Development and Validation of the Practicing Faith Survey, David I. Smith, Albert Cheng, and Beth Green

Submissions from 2021

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Catholics and the 2020 Presidential Election, Corwin E. Smidt

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C. S. Lewis and His Later Respondents: Letting in Fresh Air, Preventing Questions, and Reimagining A Preface to Paradise Lost, David V. Urban

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Kristen Du Mez Tells Me How Evangelicals Fell in Love with John Wayne, Kristin Du Mez

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Gut bacteria are essential for normal cuticle development in herbivorous turtle ants, Christophe Duplais, Vincent Sarou-Kanian, Dominique Massiot, Alia Hassan, and John T. Wertz

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Comparison of sample types from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) for DNA extraction and analyses, Jessie Edson, Justin Brown, William L. Miller, and David Walter

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An outbreak of canine schistosomiasis in Utah Acquisition of a new snail host (Galba humilis) by Heterobilharzia americana, a pathogenic parasite on the move, Eric S. Loker, Scott Z. Dolginow, Suzanne Pape, Colin D. Topper, and Randall J. DeJong

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Kristin Du Mez: Love Thy Neighbor is for Wimps, Kristin Du Mez

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The Mindful Christian with Irene Kraegel, Irene Kraegel

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Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) acoustic foraging behavior and applications for long term monitoring, Manuel Castellote, Aran Mooney, Russel Andrews, and Stacy L. DeRuiter

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Irene Kraegel on Christian Mindfulness, Irene Kraegel

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For the birds Absence and vision in teaching texts, David I. Smith

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Review of Laura W. Ekstrom, "God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will", Kevin Timpe

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Technology, Values, and Faith with Computer Scientist Derek Schuurman, Derek Schuurman

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Loren Haarsma - When Did Sin Begin?, Loren Haarsma

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Holding Close Both the Wonder and the Wounds, Kevin Timpe

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What if Forgiveness were Unthinkable?, James K.A. Smith

Creating with Purpose with Artist Elaine Tolsma Harlow, Elaine Tolsma Harlow

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The Problem of Heaven with Dr. Kevin Timpe, Kevin Timpe

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Guest Post: A Well-Read Post, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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High-Density Blood Transcriptomics Reveals Precision Immune Signatures of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Hospitalized Individuals, Jeremy W. Prokop, Nicholas L. Hartog, Dave Chesla, and William Faber

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Geological and hydrogeological assessment of the Brito Formation Municipio de Tola, Nicaragua, James K. Adamson, Thomas LaVanchy, Brandon Stone, James A. Clark, and Stuart J. Dykstra

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Strain fields in twisted bilayer graphene, Nathanael P. Kazmierczak, Madeline Van Winkle, Colin Ophus, and Karen C. Bustillo

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Anthropogenic noise alters parental behavior and nestling developmental patterns, but not fledging condition, Meelyn Mayank Pandit, James Eapen, Gabriela Pineda-Sabillon, and Margaret E. Caulfield

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A qualitative analysis of translanguaging by colombian migrants in North Carolina, Scott Lamanna

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Diffusive search and trajectories on tubular networks a propagator approach, Zubenelgenubi C. Scott, Aidan I. Brown, Saurabh S. Mogre, and Laura M. Westrate

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Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects A review of the evidence and its implications, Paul E. Brockway, Steve Sorrell, Gregor Semieniuk, and Matthew K. Heun

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Crystal structure of tris, Colin T. Hartgerink, Richard J. Staples, and Carolyn E. Anderson

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A Careful Reassessment of Globular Cluster Multiple Population Radial Distributions with Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Johnson-Cousins Broadband Photometry, Willem B. Hoogendam and Jason P. Smolinski

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Sin in Christian Thought, Kevin Timpe

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The Reality of Our Rebellion with Dr. Rebecca DeYoung, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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concordance of 2-knots, Nathan Sunukjian

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I'm a Philosopher. We Can't Think Our Way Out of This Mess. (The Intelligence of Love), James K.A. Smith

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Vainglory: A Vice that Glitters, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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Disputing Dijkstra, and birthdays in base 2, Mark Guzdial and Joel C. Adams

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Traversing a tightrope between ecumenism and exclusivism, Retief Müller

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Political differences in free will belief are associated with differences in moralization, Jim A. C. Everett, Cory J. Clark, Peter Meindl, and Jamie B. Luguri

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Moving from final to useful stage in energy-economy analysis A critical assessment, Matthew K. Heun

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Energy and Greenhouse Gas Savings for LEED-certified U.S. Office Buildings, John H. Scofield, Susannah Brodnitz, Jakob Cornell, Tian Liang, and Thomas Scofield

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Higher homotopy invariants for spaces and maps, David Blanc and Mark W. Johnson

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Objective physiological measures of lingual and jaw function in healthy individuals and individuals with dysphagia due to neurodegenerative diseases, Megan E. Cuellar and Elizabeth Oommen

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What are you Guarding? Lessons on Anger and its Antidotes from the Christian Tradition In Adam C. Pelser & W. Scott Cleveland (eds.), Faith and Virtue Formation: Christian Philosophy in Aid of Becoming Good, Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

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Investigating the relationships among leisure, coping, and personal growth among people with physical disabilities, Junhyoung Kim, Jaehyun Kim, Chungsup Lee, and Namyun Kil

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Aspirations, Human Capital Investment, and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Indonesia, Sung Soo Lim and Jongwook Lee

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Multi-scale virtual field experience, Madeline S. Marshall and Melinda C. Higley

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The other’s humanity with or without the other’s religiosity, Retief Müller

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Biogeographic-stratigraphic-and-environmental-distribution-of-basilosaurus-mammalia-cetacea-in-north-america-with-a-review-of-the-late-eocene-shoreline-in-the-southeastern-coastal-plain, Kathlyn M. Smith, Alexander K. Hastings, Ryan M. Bebej, and Mark D. Uhen