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
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
Leon's military death certificate. His full name was "Eugene Leon." Leon Mathonnet died on October 2, 1914, killed in battle…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellNovember 7, 2017
Back by popular demand! If one doesn't do it for you, maybe the next one will! 1. This is an…
Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 24, 2017
