In a conversation with a colleague yesterday the topic of popular conceptions of science came up.  We noted together that in the past year and

If you have gone to most any news or newspaper website in the last few months, then you know that you have not needed to

A C-SPAN video has gone viral (how often can you say that!?).  It was shot Friday morning outside the White House where First Lady Jill

A recent article in the New York Times addressed the troubling rise of a militant form of Christian Nationalism and how prevalent—and visually obvious—this was

What to write?  I have often asked myself that question every other week when my turn to post a blog here on The Twelve comes

This week’s focus on the Congress in the United States—and particularly on the Senate—sent me back to Robert Caro’s book Master of the Senate (Knopf,

For this Christmas Day 2020 I offer this meditation/sermon from Luke 1:26-38: Those of us who are parents, grandparents, uncles, or aunts all know what

Experts from the fields of psychology and neurology claim that our memory is susceptible to error.  Sometimes we are sure we remember something that we

Very few people alive today can remember a year like 2020. And most (if not all) of us who have lived through this year sincerely