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

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