[Note:  For my post this week, I offer a slightly revised Thanksgiving Day meditation I gave some years back.   It is based on Matthew 6:19-36

As the schedule would have it, election day in the U.S. coincides with my turn here on The Twelve.  I spent a long while Monday

Some years back I had the privilege of doing an on-stage interview with Rev. Eugene Peterson at the Festival of Faith & Writing at Calvin

My friend Frederick Dale Bruner loves teaching the big narratives in John’s Gospel.   When he and I used to do a preaching seminar together, a

Years ago I had a page-a-day calendar that featured each day a quote from some semi-famous person or another.  I can’t remember to whom this

A couple of weeks ago I had the great privilege of being the featured teacher at “The School of Preaching” held at a church in

Recently here on The Twelve, colleague Jim Bratt gave a glowing review of Ron Chernow’s brilliant new biography Grant.  Among other things, Bratt noted that

The summer seminars I help to lead often provide fodder for this blog.  That was the case last month after a seminar in Colorado.  And

We saw it a few years back.   There was a major refugee crisis.  We knew many thousands were fleeing violence and poverty and trying to