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Thomas Goodhart

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Home on Ascension Day

In the book Letter to my Daughter, a collection of 28 short essays, the great poet, activist, and human being Maya Angelou writes in one

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A Slippery Slope

Sin can be a slippery slope. I can still picture it, the baseboard that ran along the outer side of stairwell. I was a kid

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Goodly Heritage

A few years ago we did some minor renovations and remodeling in our church building, converting a rather dank closet that was being used as

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God’s Touch

My brother recently texted me some old family pictures of him and me when we were kids—I think my family was going through old photo

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Lenten Lengthening

Tom is away this week attending the Steering Committee of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. In his place we introduce the Rev. Leah Ennis, an RCA

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Journeys of Faith Together

Watching the Olympics in the last month has brought me back to ten years ago when I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the

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Imagination

    When I last wrote here on the Twelve, I wondered about the role of play in faith development and becoming disciples of Christ.

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Play and Discipleship

A recent study on the cognitive abilities and development of 16-months-old children has me wondering about the role of play in developing—and perhaps just as

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