The pace of our walks has become much slower this past year. It was never especially fast to begin with as there is the need

I haven’t been able to stop thinking of Mary this Advent. What is my relationship to Mary? That is what I keep wondering about. When

I never did get around to seeing the second “The Hobbit” movie last December or any time until just 5 nights ago when my kids

Merry Christmas and Advent blessings to all the readers of Perspectives and its blog, The Twelve. As you consider your year-end charitable giving, we invite

Just when you thought nothing significant could come out of Hollywood, North Korea and their always fun supreme leader Kim Jong-un have made the movies

By Marijke Strong Luke 1:46-55 My soul magnifies the Lord. Do you remember how on summer nights we would watch stars from the upstairs balcony?

In the first week of Advent—no, make it a good week before Advent, sometime in the run-up to Thanksgiving—the first sound came to me: rum

I became infatuated with vinyl records as a kid. My dad would buy little 45 singles and my brother and I would listen to them

I’m writing this blog for me and you. It’s about our personal and collective response to racism, particularly a kind of communicative praxis that I