Christians aren’t supposed to be proud persons.   Pride is a sin.   That’s why many people I know—even when they are doing no more than expressing

In the grand scheme of things the year 1880 was not really all that long ago.   In my lifetime I’ve been privileged to know three

Today I was going to blog about Chick-fil-A but since I am really tired of this story—and since most everything good and inane has already

My “The 12” colleague Jeff Munroe has a mighty fine blog from yesterday (July 23) that I urge you to look at.   I’ll try to

Two related articles in this past Sunday’s New York Times caught my eye and have been rattling around in my head since I read them.   

If you are an exceptionally astute reader of “The 12” blog, you may recall that in one of my first blog posts last year I

Years ago when doing a sermon series on The Fruit of the Spirit, I noted to my congregation how relatively pedestrian some of the spiritual