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

Arthur Brooks and I overlapped one year in the same high school back in the early 1980s when Arthur’s father was a visiting professor for

Yesterday was one of those odd collisions of events that can nearly be disorienting.  Starting Sunday afternoon and into Monday my social media feeds were

Near as I can tell, there has not been a lot of engagement here on The Twelve with one of the biggest religious news stories

For some years now I have taken the two or so hours it requires to read the entire end-of-year edition of the New York Times

In Anne Tyler’s 2004 novel, The Amateur Marriage,  we witness a sad series of events. The book’s main characters are Michael and Pauline, a pair

The sabbatical of my colleague Lyle Bierma this Fall presented me the chance to teach the half-semester “Christian Reformed Church History” class for the first

The group Three Dog Night had it right: “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.”   They may also have been onto something in

My wife and I were still newlyweds when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down on November 9, 1989.   I remember sitting in the living room