Probably we underestimate the long odds faced by the Christian faith among its earliest disciples and congregations.   The ancient Greco-Roman world in which the Gospel

“Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.”  1 John 5:21 In the Bible it was very often the case that various idols did not replace worship

It is the last day of Epiphany today.  Ash Wednesday ushers us into Lent tomorrow.  Although it can be shorter by about ten whole days

Sheldon Cooper is one of the world’s more brilliant scientists. As portrayed by Jim Parsons on the hit TV show The Big Bang Theory, Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” contains sentence after sentence of searing and memorable prose. But already years ago when I first

“We have heard the voice of Dr. Martin Luther King calling us to cut the cancer of prejudice from our souls and from our land. 

In Marilynne Robinson’s luminous epistolary novel Gilead we read the musings of the Rev. John Ames.   Ames is coming to the end of his days

Note: As we begin Advent, I offer this meditation based on Mark 1:1-13 that  I gave in the Calvin Seminary Chapel at the head of

By Scott Hoezee Our blog here at The Twelve is closely tied to Perspectives Journal, whose history also intertwined in many ways with the old