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

I decided to try to learn Spanish recently.  In high school and college I learned German and became a German Major at Calvin, attaining a

We are in quite a moment in the United States (though the world is looking on curiously and even anxiously).  The launching of an impeachment

The recent movie Yesterday is mostly a light-hearted romantic comedy with a divertingly fun premise.  Although the movie (wisely) never tries to explain it, the

In politics near as I can tell there has been a long philosophical divide on questions related to the role and the size of government.  

Recently my denomination of the Christian Reformed Church in North America issued a statement following the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.  It has

I did have an Apple.  It was an Apple IIgs computer.  Had a color monitor and everything and at 256 kb of embedded memory, it

Regular readers of The Twelve, and particularly those who are familiar with my past postings, know two things: I have grave and abiding concerns about