Category: Blog

Imagination

    When I last wrote here on the Twelve, I wondered about the role of play in faith development and becoming disciples of Christ.

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Where’s your church?

While the Rev. Jes Kast-Keat is enjoying vacation, she invites the Rev. John Russell Stanger to write for The Twelve. John Russell is Minister for

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To Death

In the wonderfully comic and deeply poignant 1987 film Broadcast News, William Hurt plays Tom Grunick, an empty-headed but ruggedly handsome network news reporter who

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Arise, My Love

No, this is not a belated tribute to Valentine’s Day. (I did, in fact, deliver my card and flowers on time. Thanks for asking.) Rather,

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In My Time of Dying

  In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn All I want for you to do is take my body home Well, well, well, so I

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The Worldly Church

Now that I’m back living and teaching in a distinctively Reformed setting, I hear a concern for the purity of the church underneath conversations about

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Two Souvenirs

As promised in my last blog, the guest blogger today is my dear friend and colleague Jane Zwart, who teaches in Calvin College’s English Department.

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