Last time, I told you that you needed to read a book about flies. Today, it’s a movie about an octopus. Recently released on Netflix,

When I entered my doctor of ministry program, the first assignment was to write an autobiography of loss. It struck me as a strange assignment

Yesterday I conducted a graveside service for a man who lived a decade longer than the strong person who is imagined in Psalm 90. Verse

By Allison Vander Broek In my advising seminar this week, my students and I explored the history of the AIDS epidemic together. We watched several

Last week we received a postcard in the church mail. No sender, no note – just this image on the front and our church address

By Jared Ayers A few weeks ago, I pulled my worn, sand-scratched copy of Moby Dick off the shelf in the fiction section of my

A little over two years ago I posted something here on The Twelve on “The Cancer of Prejudice.”   That post was prompted by a letter