Yesterday the staff of the Chimes, Calvin College’s student newspaper, released their weekly issue with a special insert called “Listen First.” In this feature, eight
Somewhere around the turn of the century, Andrew Vander Wagon, who was never an officially licensed pastor but became one anyway, determined to build a
Are you for peace? Do you like peace? So what? Seems like rather silly questions. If you’re reading this, whatever brings you to The Twelve
On a long commute home on the A train, I recently finished Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies. Have you
Our daughter’s semester abroad this Fall gave my wife and me the opportunity last week to visit the country of Hungary and specifically the wonderful
Three cities in my home state of Michigan decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana in last week’s elections (following the earlier lead of several
Had a great discussion with faculty colleagues last night about my biography of Abraham Kuyper. Some of the people in the room had been reared
During the last season of Walking Dead, I blogged about faith, hope, and love in a zombie apocalypse. As I wrote then, the AMC television
The film Lars and the Real Girl tells the story about a young man—Lars—trying to work through relational and emotional issues. His mother died
