Once again summer schedules and the calendar mean I am composing this blog five days before it will appear.  I won’t know what my colleagues

As I am leading a seminar out West this week, I am writing this blog before the CRC Synod is over. And there will be

By the end of this week my denomination’s annual meeting of the Synod will have begun.  My colleague here on The Twelve, Steve Mathonnet VanderWell,

Last week I sat in on an oral Ph.D. dissertation defense that focused on a Bible commentator from the 17th century.  Among the propositions the

It has been 31 years since Neil Postman released his book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.  At the

I have long been an advocate for pastoral prayers that evince a capaciousness of thought and perspective.  It’s too easy to pray for only the

I just returned from a week in Asheville, North Carolina, where a lot of the talk is about HB2, the new LGBT-related law that allows

Last week I spent two days interacting with ten pastors who served as peer group leaders for me last year as part of a Lilly

There is an agony afoot among pastors and other Christian leaders.   I see it all over Facebook.   I read about it in leading Christian periodicals