History is silted full of tragedies.  On the day I am writing this (a few days ahead of the just-past Labor Day holiday in the

Fighting against heresy is a deep-seated part of church history.  We maybe don’t like to think of Christianity that way.  We prefer to present Christianity

Seventeen years ago Neal Plantinga created a summer seminar titled “Imaginative Reading for Creative Preaching.”  I was privileged to be one of about twenty pastors

Then the devil led Jesus to the entrance of the Jerusalem Farmers Market.   Jesus observed that most people were prudently wearing face coverings and masks

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