Blog Wilderness Shalom Note: As we begin Advent, I offer this meditation based on Mark 1:1-13 that I gave in the Calvin Seminary…Scott HoezeeDecember 5, 2017
Blog The Living Tradition By Scott Hoezee Our blog here at The Twelve is closely tied to Perspectives Journal, whose history also intertwined in…Scott HoezeeNovember 28, 2017
Blog Preaching in Public Chewed up, spit up, barfed out. Not a few preachers would tell you this is how it feels sometimes after…Scott HoezeeNovember 14, 2017
Blog It’s Grace As the luck (or the providence) of the calendar would have it, I get to blog here on The Twelve…Scott HoezeeOctober 31, 2017
Blog Poverty Up Close I have been working my way through Matthew Desmond's searing and award-winning book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American…Scott HoezeeOctober 17, 2017
Blog Las Vegas, Roy Moore, and American Madness This is not the first time I have blogged about guns in America. A couple of years ago I suggested…Scott HoezeeOctober 3, 2017
Blog Dysfunction and Grace Yesterday I preached at the Calvin College Chapel service as part of a series looking at biblical characters. My assignment…Scott HoezeeSeptember 19, 2017
Blog How about a Nice Game of Chess? The premise of the 1983 film War Games is that a NORAD computer—that had been programmed to “play” a game…Scott HoezeeSeptember 5, 2017
Blog That You Set into Place We live in curious times. On the one hand, a surprising percentage of American Christians expend a great deal of…Scott HoezeeAugust 22, 2017
Blog Construals Two weeks ago I talked about gratitude and how to get more of it into our lives. Along the way…Scott HoezeeAugust 8, 2017