There have been several reflections here on The Twelve of late related to the current controversy over statues and memorials, including yesterday’s blog by my

Comedian Jon Stewart, original host of the Comedy Central program The Daily Show, may or may not have very many religious sensibilities.  Stewart is capable

It was not lost on many of my fellow preachers on Sunday that on the very day we celebrate the outpouring of God’s Breath on

Let’s stipulate up front: the two topics I will address here are not apples to apples.  Apples to oranges perhaps.  Or perhaps like what was

If I come across any one of a dozen or so movies while channel surfing, I will almost always stop, pick up the movie wherever

We have all noted at some point the similarities between laughing and crying.  Despite representing opposites poles on the emotional spectrum, the manifestation of each

What many Christians are going to miss most about Easter Sunday in five days are precisely the things the actual Gospels mostly also are missing. 

Some years back, before we even had The Twelve yet I think, I wrote an article in Perspectives on a strangely powerful benediction that Neal

Today I will spend part of my afternoon teaching a class at the Handlon Correctional Facility near Ionia, Michigan.  Handlon is home to Calvin University’s