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

Chewed up, spit up, barfed out.   Not a few preachers would tell you this is how it feels sometimes after preaching a sermon (and most

As the luck (or the providence) of the calendar would have it, I get to blog here on The Twelve on the precise 500th anniversary

I have been working my way through Matthew Desmond’s searing and award-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.  Although he changes people’s

This is not the first time I have blogged about guns in America.   A couple of years ago I suggested that people whose ultimate vision

Yesterday I preached at the Calvin College Chapel service as part of a series looking at biblical characters.   My assignment was Jacob.  The day before

The premise of the 1983 film War Games is that a NORAD computer—that had been programmed to “play” a game called “Global Thermonuclear War”—goes rogue,

We live in curious times.  On the one hand, a surprising percentage of American Christians expend a great deal of energy denying a huge swath