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

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