She interrupted my sermon. . .but then, I'm not a preacher. I'm a teacher--or I was a teacher. When I stood before…
James C. SchaapOctober 5, 2012
The neighbors have that iconic Harvey Dunn ("The Prairie is My Garden") up on their living room wall, bold and…
James C. SchaapSeptember 7, 2012
The older I get, the more vividly I come to understand that scowl on the face of both father and…
James C. SchaapAugust 24, 2012
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
At least some of its features I could have guessed had I never opened the cover. It's plainly and…
James C. SchaapJuly 27, 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
