Category: Blog

Vortices

Today we welcome a guest blogger to The Twelve. Thom Fiet is pastor with the Pleasant Plains Presbyterian Church, found in God’s Hudson Valley. Thanks, Thom! At what

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The Pilgrimage

Shiprock, New Mexico I was adopted by my maternal grandparents at a very young age. They have been incredible parents to me. My brith-parents died

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What’s Real

My own Facebook feed is probably too limited to be much of a bellwether on anything.   But across a weekend that featured both a Super

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Gifts

  I don’t use the word feeble very frequently, and my guess is that few of us do. If we use the word at all, we’re likely

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Holiness Liturgy

I love high-church liturgy. Smells and bells, processions and litanies, choirs and acolytes—the more the merrier. It might be because of the sere Christian Reformed

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I Hope They Both Lose

  “So who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl?” All week… the same question. “I hope they both lose,” is the response I’ve

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Musing about Empathy

Guest blogging for Theresa Latini today is Nkiru Okafor. Sr. M. Nkiruka C. Okafor IHM is a member of the Religious Institute of the Sisters

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An Important Failure

During this long, cold month of January, I’ve spent my time teaching—with my lovely friend and very talented colleague, Jane Zwart—an interim class entitled “Faith

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