Category: Blog

The Worldly Church

Now that I’m back living and teaching in a distinctively Reformed setting, I hear a concern for the purity of the church underneath conversations about

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Two Souvenirs

As promised in my last blog, the guest blogger today is my dear friend and colleague Jane Zwart, who teaches in Calvin College’s English Department.

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A Taste of Communion

“Too many choices!” I commented as I tried to pick from the array of bread, bagels, and baked goods displayed in the breakfast buffet. “Yes,

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Vortices

Today we welcome a guest blogger to The Twelve. Thom Fiet is pastor with the Pleasant Plains Presbyterian Church, found in God’s Hudson Valley. Thanks, Thom! At what

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The Pilgrimage

Shiprock, New Mexico I was adopted by my maternal grandparents at a very young age. They have been incredible parents to me. My brith-parents died

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What’s Real

My own Facebook feed is probably too limited to be much of a bellwether on anything.   But across a weekend that featured both a Super

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