Category: Blog

ICYMI 2016 Edition

I’m a sucker for end-of-the-year “best of” lists.  Not sure why—maybe it stems from a misspent youth listening to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 countdown

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Late-Advent Lassitude

Nothing like an unexpected pregnancy to motivate your job search. At least we had an interview. But we were unknowns. We had no connections. No

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Dangerous Hope

By Brian Keepers There’s a memorable scene in the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian novel The Hunger Games that, while it isn’t in the

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The Fourth Sunday of Advent

There were sheepherders camping in the neighborhood. They had set night watches over their sheep. Suddenly, God’s angel stood among them and God’s glory blazed

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Quid Est Potentia?

“There are two elements of the constitution, wrote Walter Bagehot in 1867, the efficient and the dignified. … The efficient has the power to make

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Christ In Between Cultures

by Steven Rodriguez I’ve gotten some great feedback for my last article on The Twelve. One interesting thread of conversation has been about my Mexican

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Fake News

by Rebecca Koerselman Historians spend most of their time with sources. We read them, search for them, evaluate them, re-evaluate them, discount them, occasionally ignore

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