Blog Bringing Mystery Back You can't tell me there is no mystery It's overflows my cup This feast of beauty can intoxicate Just like…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellOctober 7, 2014
Blog Grandma’s Baptism “I’m going to baptize my grandkids this summer!” These were the words of an Elder in my congregation, a grandmother,…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellSeptember 22, 2014
Blog Ten Incredibly Profound Thoughts The bane of the internet is that no one ever has a thought she doesn’t share. Your bane today is…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellSeptember 5, 2014
Blog A Pretty Good Book A Letter to My Congregation: An evangelical pastor’s path to embracing people who are gay, lesbian and transgender into the…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellAugust 25, 2014
Blog The Grace of Doing Nothing It has been a sad summer, a time of lamentation. But perhaps we grieve not only the brutality and bloodshed.…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellAugust 11, 2014
Blog Eulogy My father, Eugene Vander Well, died on July 8. Below is the eulogy I offered at his memorial service. If…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJuly 29, 2014
Blog Not All Things are Beneficial Today we welcome guest-blogger, Josh Bode. Josh is minister of the Woodstock Reformed Church, in Woodstock, New York. What happens…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJuly 14, 2014
Blog Who Are We? “I never want to attend another meeting with large sheets of newsprint on the wall and colored markers on the…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJune 29, 2014
Blog Neighbors Today we welcome Elizabeth Brown Hardeman as a guest-blogger on The Twelve. Elizabeth is a minister in the Reformed Church…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJune 16, 2014
Blog Birth-Control, Religious Freedom and Obamacare I can't believe how many Protestants have suddenly become Roman Catholic in their anti-Obamacare arguments. Please listen carefully, all you…Steve Mathonnet-VanderWellJune 3, 2014