Dubuque, Iowa is a middle-size city on the Mississippi River where Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin meet. It’s a rather gritty river town, now splashed with

About a year ago Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option was making a big splash.  I didn’t read it. I read enough reviews to know that

Once upon a time, I was suspicious of psychology. It was an enemy of faith. Psychology purported that healthy, balanced people did not need religion.

The Bible does not like dogs. • When evil queen Jezebel is pushed off a balcony to her death, her corpse is eaten by dogs

by Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell It’s January. It’s been so cold the climate-change-deniers have trotted out their usual “How can there be global warming when its -10°

If I were a boy or a young man today, I would likely go by “Stephen”–like, Colbert, Curry, Hawking, and King. But growing up as

One Christmas, I was probably about ten years old, I made a last-minute switcheroo in what I wanted for Christmas. Instead of the tabletop football

by Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell It is Giving Tuesday, the day you are asked to be generous, to support your favorite charities. And of course, we are

A few weeks back, the ever-eloquent and oft-droll Debra Rienstra stirred up quite a tempest here on The Twelve when she wrote “I Never Was