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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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The Religion of Crossfit

Today, we welcome Chad Pierce as a guest blogger on The Twelve.  Chad teaches biblical studies at Central College in Pella, Iowa and is a

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Rockwell

 This weekend I saw a special exhibit of Norman Rockwell’s work here in Nashville . I had heard it was great, and I wasn’t disappointed.

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An Ode to Cable

Oh cable, I could not part with you! I came close, though. You know how it works: you negotiate a one-year deal, and then when

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