Perhaps not all readers of “The Twelve” will be aware of it but in some circles within the Christian Reformed Church these past ten days

A year ago I was sitting at my kitchen table face to face with a stack of 40-some sermons, each based on one of the

First, sorry for the overly alliterative title.  But for this post, those words really are the apt ones to invoke!  Like many people, I have

Since this post will appear early in Holy Week 2012, my thoughts have turned toward questions of the meaning of Jesus’ sacrifice.   In a seminary

For various reasons across the last year or two, I have been involved in some faith-and-science conversations.  One topic that has come up often of

There are lots of reasons to like the Reformed standard of The Heidelberg Catechism but among the reasons I like it is the positive spin

As someone who grew up in the Christian Reformed Church through the 1970s and 80s, I knew virtually nothing about the Season of Lent until