It was a while ago now, four short years, counting like a grandparent. I finished with opening prayer at a…
James C. SchaapMarch 7, 2014
I don't use the word feeble very frequently, and my guess is that few of us do. If we use the…
James C. SchaapFebruary 3, 2014
Conventicle is an odd old word, but kind of fun actually, a word which suggests, by its composition, what it is--a…
James C. SchaapJanuary 23, 2014
The Christian Reformed mission at Zuni pueblo, New Mexico, in the 1920s “Depression times made return to Zuni unlikely,”…
James C. SchaapJanuary 10, 2014
It’s age. Why not tell it like it is? I wouldn’t be ornery if I were 24 or even 48. …
James C. SchaapDecember 27, 2013
Today, in Sweden, a traditionally Lutheran country, most of the populace, I'm told, will go Christmas-crazy, having fallen in love…
James C. SchaapDecember 13, 2013
Our fascination with the Holocaust seems unending, in part because nothing in the world's recent past offers us such…
James C. SchaapNovember 29, 2013
Somewhere around the turn of the century, Andrew Vander Wagon, who was never an officially licensed pastor but became one…
James C. SchaapNovember 14, 2013
Every so often Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac features some sweet nostalgia, sure to make almost anyone regret his or her no more…
James C. SchaapOctober 31, 2013
