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Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell

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The Grace of Doing Nothing

It has been a sad summer, a time of lamentation. But perhaps we grieve not only the brutality and bloodshed. We are also shaken and

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Not All Things are Beneficial

Today we welcome guest-blogger, Josh Bode. Josh is minister of the Woodstock Reformed Church, in Woodstock, New York. What happens when we think about the

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Who Are We?

“I never want to attend another meeting with large sheets of newsprint on the wall and colored markers on the table.” Couldn’t we all agree?

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Neighbors

Today we welcome Elizabeth Brown Hardeman as a guest-blogger on The Twelve. Elizabeth is a minister in the Reformed Church in America, a mother of

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Tulip Time & God

Is no theology preferable to bad theology? In my town, Pella, Iowa, Tulip Time was almost three weeks ago. The tulips weren’t quite ready, but

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Change

It was a facetious question. More or less. “Have you ever considered planting churches that are very intentionally open and affirming of LGBT folk? Given

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Olly, Olly, Oxen Free!

Playing hide-and-seek as a kid, when the game was over, we would yell out “Olly, olly, oxen free.” Only recently did I learn the ancient

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Praying in Restaurants

“Grandpa, we don’t pray in restaurants!” So declared my daughter to my father, many, many years ago. Our food had arrived, and as was his

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