Blog Poverty Up Close 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
Blog Las Vegas, Roy Moore, and American Madness This is not the first time I have blogged about guns in America. A couple of years ago I suggested…Scott HoezeeOctober 3, 2017
Blog Dysfunction and Grace Yesterday I preached at the Calvin College Chapel service as part of a series looking at biblical characters. My assignment…Scott HoezeeSeptember 19, 2017
Blog How about a Nice Game of Chess? 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
Blog That You Set into Place We live in curious times. On the one hand, a surprising percentage of American Christians expend a great deal of…Scott HoezeeAugust 22, 2017
Blog Construals Two weeks ago I talked about gratitude and how to get more of it into our lives. Along the way…Scott HoezeeAugust 8, 2017
Blog The Grateful Heart By the time this post appears on The Twelve I will be on day two of a week-long seminar with…Scott HoezeeJuly 25, 2017
Blog Commemorate, Note, Celebrate, Mourn? I expect that by October here on The Twelve--and all over the place--we will be writing and reading many'a post…Scott HoezeeJuly 11, 2017
Blog Masters of Chaos When I studied the Book of Genesis in seminary, one of the first things my professor, Ray Van Leeuwen, pointed…Scott HoezeeJune 27, 2017
Blog Praying At the end of our Faculty Meetings, we go around the room to gather up prayer requests. At the final…Scott HoezeeJune 13, 2017