This week I will listen to around 21 student sermons preached in our Seminary’s Chapel. Borrowing a phrase from the Academy of Preachers, I have

New York City may not be the most secular city around but like lots of this world’s larger cities, neither does it bristle with religious

A while ago here on The Twelve I mentioned Oral Comprehensive Exams at Calvin Seminary.  Well, now we are near the end of the semester

Maybe it’s bad form on a running blog like The Twelve to tee up off a prior day’s posting by a colleague, but Rebecca Koerselman’s

March is Oral Comp season here at Calvin Seminary where I teach.   In a couple of weeks all of our seniors who are completing their

I think it was sometime in high school while taking German that I began to make the (obvious) connections between Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday/Lent.  

I never did get around to seeing the second “The Hobbit” movie last December or any time until just 5 nights ago when my kids

“Hey, Obama quoted my report in his speech last night!” That was the little (almost tiny) joke I made to my wife in reference to