I report to you late on Friday night after two exhilarating days at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College. I’m exhausted and

I was born in 1948, but it took me a while to understand the world into which I was, that year, so healthily delivered, or

First, sorry for the overly alliterative title.  But for this post, those words really are the apt ones to invoke!  Like many people, I have

The other day James Bratt posted a careful, scholarly review of Calvinism and Politics on this site.  Here’s more, neither careful nor scholarly. . .

A number of you sent appreciative notes on my last post, “The Geography of Faith,” which took a shot at the big picture of American

So begins the movie, Jeff, Who Lives at Home. I saw the Duplasses’ latest movie this past weekend with a friend, and it stuck with

[Alas, today will be my final post here at The Twelve.  I’ve been honored to be part of the team that has launched this conversation,