Blog Patriarchy, Power, and Precarity in the Evangelical Church I was fortunate enough to spend a week at home over Christmas, which meant I also had the chance to…Allison Vander BroekJanuary 18, 2020
Blog Feeling Minnesota: The Case for Klobuchar Iowa is a great place to be during an election year. Yes, the rest of the nation pisses and moans…Jason LiefJanuary 17, 2020
Blog What the Pope Said Monday night I finally got around to watching The Two Popes on Netflix. Directed by Fernando Mereilles, the film centers…Laura de JongJanuary 16, 2020
Blog The Long Defeat A few nights ago, I sat down into the worn blue chair crammed into the corner of my sons’ bedroom,…Jared AyersJanuary 15, 2020
Blog This Fractured Moment Near as I can tell, there has not been a lot of engagement here on The Twelve with one of…Scott HoezeeJanuary 14, 2020
Blog A Transfiguration at Pine Lake Nearly every summer since 1983, my extended family has rented summer cabins on Pine Lake near Wellston, Michigan. The cabins…Tom BoogaartJanuary 13, 2020
Blog Looking Backward "You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward." ~ Soren Kierkegaard For a few of you, perhaps, the…Jeff JapingaJanuary 12, 2020
Blog Everything Causes a Scintillation: Review of Robert Macfarlane’s Underland, Lost Words, and Spell Songs I found following Macfarlane’s journeys both arduous and compelling, yielding up the conclusion for me that the earth is a…Debra RienstraJanuary 11, 2020
Blog Where is thy sting? In another day and another time, the buildings crowded on the block made all kinds of sense. The school's own…James C. SchaapJanuary 10, 2020
Blog Screentime: A Reckoning We keep having the same conversation while we are adventuring around the country. It’s about technology and our kids. My…Kate KooymanJanuary 9, 2020