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
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

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.
Or “Neo-Pagans” and “Unchurched” Neo-pagan. It’s a term I toss around frequently, often endearingly. I think of many friends and acquaintances who I describe as

“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,

Despite the continued deep freeze here in Michigan, I spy a glow of hope on the horizon: something wonderful is coming! I don’t mean spring.
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
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

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
We had a Taizé-style worship service at Western Theological Seminary the other day, which meant we all sat on the chapel floor. I was by