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
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
5th grade at our house always makes for interesting conversation. It’s in the 5th grade that students first get the talk. “5th grade science” has a
I awoke yesterday to an all too familiar scene on the news . . . another black man gunned down by a police officer. A
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
Jessica Bratt is away today. We welcome Paul Janssen as a guest blogger. Thanks, Paul. Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no
By Gregory Anderson Love In her book Short Stories By Jesus, New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine looks at the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke
Holy Week demands that we dwell in-between. We have been trying since Palm Sunday to place ourselves in the familiar stories of this week, imagining
For 500 years “De steen die door de tempelbowers” was sung first crack out of the box at Easter morning worship, or so says
