What I can't help but notice, almost daily, is that I'm running low on holy water. Truth is, this Protestant…
James C. SchaapOctober 3, 2014
Henry Whipple was one of the first students. Don't be fooled--not the Henry Whipple, the famous Minnesota missionary who, in 1862, pleaded with…
James C. SchaapSeptember 5, 2014
Count me among the millions of those who watched the agony of Kunte Kinte a half-century ago and were deeply,…
James C. SchaapAugust 22, 2014
It may well have been the very first time I used a camera for something other than family pics, an…
James C. SchaapAugust 8, 2014
He came along in my life when I needed him, even though I didn't know I did. I wanted to…
James C. SchaapJuly 25, 2014
Yesterday, my neighbor came by and dumped a scoop full of black dirt on what, someday, will be--we hope--our…
James C. SchaapJuly 10, 2014
That's a political rally right here in Alton, Iowa, circa 1903. That's Teddy Roosevelt gesturing off the caboose of that…
James C. SchaapJune 27, 2014
There are two women in this story, two women and 125 years. One of them, this one, Renske, immigrated to…
James C. SchaapJune 13, 2014
He was, in a way, both a large part and a small part of the Allied Invasion of Normandy, June…
James C. SchaapMay 30, 2014
