Thanks to my colleagues, this blog has been hitting its stride in the last two weeks (IMHO), day after day taking on challenging, serious topics

Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you–that everything written about me in

Just a week or so ago, Frederick Manfred would have celebrated his 100th birthday, had he lived. He didn’t.  He died in 1994, from the complications

Confession I feel a bit awkward in writing this post. It is probably because I feel insufficient to be the one writing on this topic.

Perhaps not all readers of “The Twelve” will be aware of it but in some circles within the Christian Reformed Church these past ten days

Anyone but me notice the death of the religious right last week?  Apparently, the religious right had started feeling poorly after Mitt Romney took Ohio

Charles Colson’s death last month prompted a chorus of praise from his evangelical supporters. Praise for his enduring conversion to Christianity. Praise for the change

Any self-reflexive preacher knows that bearing the Word of God with her or his human words is a weighty matter. Scripture and experience teach us,