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

Two weeks ago I talked about gratitude and how to get more of it into our lives.  Along the way I mentioned the theologian Robert

By the time this post appears on The Twelve I will be on day two of a week-long seminar with seventeen pastors.   I am teaming