“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?

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

I can’t believe how many Protestants have suddenly become Roman Catholic in their anti-Obamacare arguments. Please listen carefully, all you who oppose the Affordable Care

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

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

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

“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

Fred Phelps, the controversial founder of Westboro Baptist Church, died last week. If you want to know more about Fred, you’ll have to read elsewhere.

I am no philosopher, nor a philosopher’s son. I am not even a herdsman or nor a dresser of sycamore trees. I refer to myself