NATHAN L.K. BIERMA
Writer••••Grand Rapids, Michigan
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My writing has been published in the Baltimore Sun, The Banner, Books & Culture, Chicago Journal, Chicago Sports Review, Chicago Tribune, Christianity Today online, Detroit Free Press, Grand Rapids Press, The [Grand Rapids] Paper, Sports Illustrated For Kids, and Verbatim.

For an index of my Tribune articles from June 2002 through January 2004 click here.

For samples of my "On Language" column, click here.

Essays:
The history of Tupperware, Books&Culture online, 05/10/04
The science of consciousness, Books&Culture online, 05/10/04
Worship and wholeness, Books&Culture online - 02/02/04
The state of feminism, Books&Culture online - 01/16/04
The rising prison population, Books&Culture - Jan./Feb. '04
Christians in newsrooms, Books&Culture online - 10/13/03
The Tragedy of the Commons, Books&Culture online - 09/29/03
How tweens are 'getting older younger,', Books&Culture - July/Aug. '03

Book reviews:
Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season, Books&Culture online - 11/15/04
The Creation of the Media, Books&Culture online - 07/05/04
City: Urbanism and Its End, Books&Culture online - 12/01/03
Habits of the High-tech Heart, The Banner - Aug. '01

Columns/Op-eds:
Second time around, Chicago Sports Review, Jan. '04
TV's generation gap, Baltimore Sun, 01/30/04
The importance of sports, Chimes, 04/30/99


Unpublished Writing
Chicago album
Belief series
America series
Thought of the Day entries:
•••••- Marriage and order
•••••- Is a person's life a story?
•••••- The purpose of ambivalence
•••••- Are historians nostalgic?
•••••- The examined life
•••••- The ontological privilege of the postmodernist?
•••••- more entries

The murder-for-hire case of a suburban homemaker, written for the Tribune
Grand Rapids pro volleyball team a force for young girls, written for GR magazine.
Living in Chicago after the September 11 attacks
New York City notebook
Millennium series:
•••••- The anti-climactic millennium
•••••- Apocalypse not
•••••- Millennium historic, if symbolic
•••••- The more things change...


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