Blog A Quieter Easter What many Christians are going to miss most about Easter Sunday in five days are precisely the things the actual…Scott HoezeeApril 7, 2020
Blog Be Not Afraid Some years back, before we even had The Twelve yet I think, I wrote an article in Perspectives on a…Scott HoezeeMarch 24, 2020
Blog Sleepless Abundance Today I will spend part of my afternoon teaching a class at the Handlon Correctional Facility near Ionia, Michigan. Handlon…Scott HoezeeMarch 10, 2020
Blog Mercy My professor of Pastoral Care, Mel Hugen, issued a very straightforward warning to us soon-to-be-pastors: Never say it cannot happen…Scott HoezeeFebruary 25, 2020
Blog Bearing Witness Arthur Brooks and I overlapped one year in the same high school back in the early 1980s when Arthur’s father…Scott HoezeeFebruary 11, 2020
Blog Overcoming the World Yesterday was one of those odd collisions of events that can nearly be disorienting. Starting Sunday afternoon and into Monday…Scott HoezeeJanuary 28, 2020
Blog This Fractured Moment Near as I can tell, there has not been a lot of engagement here on The Twelve with one of…Scott HoezeeJanuary 14, 2020
Blog Lived Stories For some years now I have taken the two or so hours it requires to read the entire end-of-year edition…Scott HoezeeDecember 31, 2019
Blog Advent Watching In Anne Tyler's 2004 novel, The Amateur Marriage, we witness a sad series of events. The book's main characters are…Scott HoezeeDecember 17, 2019
Blog These Times The sabbatical of my colleague Lyle Bierma this Fall presented me the chance to teach the half-semester “Christian Reformed Church…Scott HoezeeDecember 3, 2019