My students in the Psalms & Wisdom Literature course are starting to write their final sermons on a psalm, and inevitably each semester some come

Staging Although we had talked about it for several years, when my wife and I finally contacted a realtor in mid-January to talk about selling

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