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Engage Your Core

For the past several summers, I’ve taken a yoga class with a number of my colleagues at Calvin. For the first few summers, we met

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  James Russell Lowell, who stood grandly among the literary luminaries of the mid-19th century, created a darling series of thumbnail sketches featuring his rival

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Grass and Flowers, Slowly

The July issue of the National Geographic magazine has an incredible article about the haymaking practiced in the small villages of the Transylvanian region of

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Bible. Poetry. Music.

“What do we progressive Christians use for devotional resources?” Welcome to a little insider pastoral conversation in my office. This question lit me up! I

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Words Matter

There is far less traffic on The 12 about this year’s RCA General Synod than last year’s, most probably because peace and unity reigned this

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but you let it go…

A few weeks ago Jes Kast-Keat wrote a post about Vampire Weekend’s new song “Ya Hey.” (You can read it here…) For the past two

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My New Friend, Qoholeth

In the past, I’ve tried to read Ecclesiastes, but I’ve not gotten beyond a few select portions of the text. And I have the Mamas

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Loyalty and Loss

Today Jeff Japinga blogs for The Twelve. Jeff is an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America who serves as associate dean and assistant

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