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Peace Be With You

“Peace be with you.” Following the resurrection and appearing to the disciples Jesus’ first words are peace. Peace is the expression of the resurrection Jesus

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Easter Tension

This Easter season I find myself reflecting on the tension of two realities: The hope of the resurrection and the killing of unarmed black men

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Taxes & Charity

Today, the day before those in the United States must file their incomes taxes, we take this opportunity to encourage you to support Perspectives/The Twelve

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Each Sunday a Little Easter

by Meg Jenista You’ve raided the children’s candy stash, the marshmallow peeps are hardening in the back corner of your pantry for another year and

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Billy Graham

I’m down at Notre Dame this weekend for a discussion of Duke Divinity School Professor Grant Wacker’s recent book on Billy Graham, America’s Pastor (Harvard

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How Long, Lord!

I awoke yesterday to an all too familiar scene on the news . . . another black man gunned down by a police officer. A

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In Defense of Millennials

We welcome Allison Vander Broek to The Twelve today, filling in for Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell. Thanks, Allison. PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly recently re-aired one of

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