Category: Blog

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Syria, Aquinas, Augustine, and Just War

When Christians are asked to evaluate the ethics of war, “just war theory”—that a war is justified— quickly enters the conversation. Here I offer some

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A prayer for Syria

Just after New Year’s Day this past January, while I was back in Grand Rapids, I walked past a reporter lady from the East Grand

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Launching

I would like to thank faithful readers of The Twelve blog for supporting this little venture, and I do hope you continue to enjoy our

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 It arrived in the mail, a gift from my wife’s cousin, who found it while sifting through their aunt’s keepsakes–a bulletin from the First Christian

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Shanah Tova!

I like a clean desk, and today is a clean desk kind of day. A day when you take all the piles—the books and folders

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The Good News of Social Media

Confession: I love social media. I am tired of people berating social media and proclaiming that it is the downfall of personal interaction. I just

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Opportunities

If you are someone who is instantly turned off by the kind of blog (or any kind of writing) whose premise is along the lines

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Why “42” Left Me Flat

  Thanks to Redbox, I finally saw 42, Brian Helgeland’s feel good story of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s “color line.”  What’s not to like? With

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sacrificing virgins

In the Southpark episode “Britney’s New Look” Stan, Cartman, Kyle, and Butters decide to make some money by snapping a photograph of Britney Spears who

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