Blog “Daily sacrificial commitments” David Brooks' gracious tribute to Tim Keller in Tuesday's New York Times is the kind of lament that manages somehow to bring light…James C. SchaapMay 26, 2023
Blog The Old Fiery Cross I’d like to believe it was the music that did it. What was going around him, what spread like a…James C. SchaapMay 12, 2023
Blog Fort Forgiveness If you're following the Trail, when you get to the river, hold on to that GPS because while finding the…James C. SchaapApril 28, 2023
Blog Memory The town is growing, developments sprouting here and there, as what was once a sleepy village becomes more and more…James C. SchaapApril 14, 2023
Blog Delta Stories What do I remember? The place was close enough to Vicksburg to visit the battlefield, which was primarily a siege…James C. SchaapMarch 31, 2023
Blog Yancey on and at Grace I read Philip Yancey's What's So Amazing About Grace? during a three-week stint I spent in Amsterdam. The end punctuation may well…James C. SchaapMarch 3, 2023
Blog “Ohio” There's much about it that's mythical, that takes the music way beyond its own unique syncopation and opening guitar riffs…James C. SchaapFebruary 17, 2023
Blog Mysteries at South Jordan There may come a time when someone's great-grandma discovers a dusty old day book some long-ago ancestor left behind, a…James C. SchaapFebruary 3, 2023
Blog In its own way Come January, what you've got to work with here is a snowy quilt, occasional azure up above, dusky grasses the…James C. SchaapJanuary 20, 2023
Blog The Spakenburg Socks We were in Spakenburg, the Netherlands, the whole Schaap family, because I wanted to see what that world looked like--I…James C. SchaapJanuary 6, 2023