“Theologia crucis is not a single chapter in theology, but the key signature for all Christian theology.” – Jurgen Moltmann The church staff I’m a

I have to admit that as a Bible college and seminary student I was not the biggest fan of Reformation Day. It always had a

Sixty years ago, Newton Minow, head of the Federal Communications Commission, memorably declared that television was a “vast wasteland.” (And that was before Jerry Springer,

In an earlier post about reading my late mom’s diaries from the 1960s, I briefly mentioned how often she wrote about her weekly routine of

Like many pastors and church leaders across the country who took advantage of a too-good-to-be-passed-up gift from Crossway Publishing (158 books for free!), I’m leading

I drew a volume from the shelf in my study the other day, and as I placed it on my desk, enlisting it in the

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

Iowa officially joined the United States in 1846, and fought on the side of the Union during the Civil War. Yet free public schools were

Last Sunday I wrote about how God is calling me to pay attention to my embodied experience in an in-between (liminal) time. My family is