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

I expect that by October here on The Twelve–and all over the place–we will be writing and reading many’a post on the occasion of the

When I studied the Book of Genesis in seminary, one of the first things my professor, Ray Van Leeuwen, pointed out was that cosmos is

At the end of our Faculty Meetings, we go around the room to gather up prayer requests.  At the final meeting of the just-past school

My colleague Bob Keeley notes in this blog that he was barely a teenager when the landmark “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album was

Those of us who are fans of the AMC cable show The Walking Dead know that although this series began with the obvious threat of

My wife and I slipped away to Chicago for a few days at the end of the recent Spring Break week.  We got a good

Of all the many, many (many) things Donald Trump said in the run-up to his election–and since then too–that should have bothered Christians more than