If you follow The Twelve with any regularity, you may recognize the name Marty Wondaal. Marty often comments on the…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellApril 17, 2018
About a year ago Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option was making a big splash. I didn’t read it. I read…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellMarch 6, 2018
Once upon a time, I was suspicious of psychology. It was an enemy of faith. Psychology purported that healthy, balanced…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 20, 2018
The Bible does not like dogs. • When evil queen Jezebel is pushed off a balcony to her death, her…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellFebruary 6, 2018
by Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell It’s January. It’s been so cold the climate-change-deniers have trotted out their usual “How can there be…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJanuary 23, 2018
If I were a boy or a young man today, I would likely go by “Stephen”--like, Colbert, Curry, Hawking, and…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 26, 2017
One Christmas, I was probably about ten years old, I made a last-minute switcheroo in what I wanted for Christmas.…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellDecember 12, 2017
by Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell It is Giving Tuesday, the day you are asked to be generous, to support your favorite charities.…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 28, 2017
A few weeks back, the ever-eloquent and oft-droll Debra Rienstra stirred up quite a tempest here on The Twelve when…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 21, 2017
