As many of us are aware, it is twenty years ago right now that the first brilliant installment of Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings”

If you are going to spend the better part of eight hours watching a documentary on The Beatles, you have to count as something of

Ten years. Doubtless others of my fellow Twelvers will be noting our recent tenth anniversary of this blog. I have been part of it from

In the late 1980s when my wife was getting her Masters degree in English from Michigan State University, she was able to get tickets to

Now and again when dining in Italian or French restaurants, you will see on the menu a dish titled “Frutti di Mare” or “Fruits de

In May of 2019—pre-pandemic and so what seems like a whole world ago—I wrote a blog here on The Twelve about a key issue that

If like me you have ever made a donation to a political candidate or party, then you know that your reward is a daily deluge

Each Fall for the last number of years I have had the privilege of assisting in all things Homiletical in my colleague Mariano Avila’s Calvin

In the United States we mark summer’s parameters with a pair of Monday holidays: Memorial Day begins the summer season and Labor Day concludes it.