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Aggiornamento

Some words stick with you longer than others for reasons hard to identify.   One such word is “aggiornamento,” which I learned along the way in

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class conflict

  Every Tuesday and Thursday I teach a class on the church: ecclesiology. Students don’t have a clue what that word means – they take

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Faith and Film

I’m down at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College this weekend for a conference on . . . Billy Graham. The festivities opened last

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100 is the new 30

I’ve started putting more birthday reminders in my Google calendar, but it feels awkward when I set such events to “repeat annually,” because the screen

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Breda

  The Surrender of Breda is a gigantic, life-size painting by Diego Velasquez (1599-1660). Mentioning it here on The Twelve, with its inordinate amount of

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