The shot is not sharp, but you get the picture. That's the ocean out there in the background, and the…
James C. SchaapAugust 10, 2012
My father never called himself a Calvinist, and neither did my mother, which is not to say that they weren’t.…
James C. SchaapJuly 12, 2012
Almost forty years ago, we went to the very same church, the very same building, that is, except it…
James C. SchaapJune 30, 2012
Way back when, I remember Richard Mouw once saying that the whole Christian world would be better off if we'd…
James C. SchaapJune 15, 2012
Rained here Saturday night. My father-in-law's little gauge--the old farmer in him couldn't really live without one--registered three-quarters of an…
James C. SchaapMay 31, 2012
Just a week or so ago, Frederick Manfred would have celebrated his 100th birthday, had he lived. He didn't. He died…
James C. SchaapMay 17, 2012
Of its origins, I'm not quite sure--some freak shop in Old Town, Chicago, circa 1968. I remember being with my…
James C. SchaapMay 3, 2012
I was born in 1948, but it took me a while to understand the world into which I was, that…
James C. SchaapApril 20, 2012
I envy monastics--sometimes. I envy their intent to zero in on the Christian faith, to delete every iota of worldly…
James C. SchaapApril 6, 2012
