In Marilynne Robinson's luminous epistolary novel Gilead we read the musings of the Rev. John Ames. Ames is coming to…
Scott HoezeeDecember 19, 2017
By Scott Hoezee Our blog here at The Twelve is closely tied to Perspectives Journal, whose history also intertwined in…
Scott HoezeeNovember 28, 2017
Chewed up, spit up, barfed out. Not a few preachers would tell you this is how it feels sometimes after…
Scott HoezeeNovember 14, 2017
As the luck (or the providence) of the calendar would have it, I get to blog here on The Twelve…
Scott HoezeeOctober 31, 2017
I have been working my way through Matthew Desmond's searing and award-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American…
Scott HoezeeOctober 17, 2017
This is not the first time I have blogged about guns in America. A couple of years ago I suggested…
Scott HoezeeOctober 3, 2017
Yesterday I preached at the Calvin College Chapel service as part of a series looking at biblical characters. My assignment…
Scott HoezeeSeptember 19, 2017
The premise of the 1983 film War Games is that a NORAD computer—that had been programmed to “play” a game…
Scott HoezeeSeptember 5, 2017
We live in curious times. On the one hand, a surprising percentage of American Christians expend a great deal of…
Scott HoezeeAugust 22, 2017
