This is not the first time I have blogged about guns in America.   A couple of years ago I suggested that people whose ultimate vision

Yesterday I preached at the Calvin College Chapel service as part of a series looking at biblical characters.   My assignment was Jacob.  The day before

The premise of the 1983 film War Games is that a NORAD computer—that had been programmed to “play” a game called “Global Thermonuclear War”—goes rogue,

We live in curious times.  On the one hand, a surprising percentage of American Christians expend a great deal of energy denying a huge swath

Two weeks ago I talked about gratitude and how to get more of it into our lives.  Along the way I mentioned the theologian Robert

By the time this post appears on The Twelve I will be on day two of a week-long seminar with seventeen pastors.   I am teaming

I expect that by October here on The Twelve–and all over the place–we will be writing and reading many’a post on the occasion of the

When I studied the Book of Genesis in seminary, one of the first things my professor, Ray Van Leeuwen, pointed out was that cosmos is

At the end of our Faculty Meetings, we go around the room to gather up prayer requests.  At the final meeting of the just-past school