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James Schaap

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Repentance and Forgiveness

There’s so much to this story that’s old news, so much that’s so awful yet so obscenely ordinary, that what happened is almost predictable. To

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Rebels and Yanks

Chickamauga was a very costly Confederate victory. The total of 16,000 Union casualties was second only to the Battle of Gettysburg that summer, but the

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Nixing Holy Writ

Years ago, I listened to Phillip Yancey reading from a new book of his, a book titled What’s So Amazing about Grace? A couple dozen

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Me and Dad and Mark Strand

There was a girl, I remember, but I don’t remember her. There was a girl, someone I’d met just that day–someone we’d met because I

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This is my father’s world

I’m told the male kestrel is grayish blue, even orange-looking, which means the determined hunter who entertained our whole family so royally during a wonderful

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Attic wandering

Like most every other retired gent, I worry, sometimes promiscuously but not to madness. Yet.  But I do. I worry about lots of things, like whether

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