Today I’d like to introduce a guest blogger: advice columnist Pious Petunia. Miss Petunia has been receiving numerous letters of late concerning today’s most puzzling
I’d never really been in a church until I was ten years old. Oh sure, there’d been a couple of funerals, and a Mennonite wedding
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. The warm sanctuary was quieter than normal. The dimly lit church was peppered
Note: I realize this post is far, far longer than the average blog here on The Twelve. But my turn for blogging here falls on
I’m too old for Kanye and Lady Gaga and too young for Johnny Mathis and Perry Como. My idea of good music comes from James
Two weeks ago I took my kids to see Rise of the Guardians – a story about Jack Frost, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and the
I was going to write in sorrow or outrage or scolding critique about the shootings at Newtown, Connecticut a week ago today. But all of
In one week, one day, one moment, so much can change; so much can be lost. And we are left torn apart and disoriented. Waves
James Vanden Bosch, professor of English at Calvin College is substituting today for Jennifer Holberg. Thanks, Jim! “We had fed the heart on fantasies, The
