Category: Blog

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These Times

As the schedule would have it, election day in the U.S. coincides with my turn here on The Twelve.  I spent a long while Monday

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How did we get Here?

As I hear the partisan language connected to the midterm elections, I cannot help but reflect on how we got here. It may be difficult

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Rising Out of Hatred

In his book, Rising Out of Hatred, Eli Saslow documents the journey of Derek Black, and how this prominent white supremacist and leader of the

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Tree of Life

I am Robert Bowers. I do not have enough. I do not have enough money or love or acceptance. I do not have enough social

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Delight and Decadence

  The monument to the doge Giovanni Pesaro, in this church, is a curiosity in the way of mortuary adornment. It is eighty feet high

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For All the Saints

One of my favorite hymns is “For All the Saints.” I keep hoping a family planning a funeral will select it, but I’ve been a

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I’m Sick of Appreciating Teachers

Don’t get me wrong, teachers are my heroes. This week, my son’s kindergarten teacher discovered that he had been unknowingly playing with another child’s vomit

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