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
Maybe a good teacher could have tried it, some whirling dervish with Obama’s eloquence, Solomon’s wisdom, and Tina Fay’s comic…
James C. SchaapMarch 8, 2012
". . .to the great God, nothing is little. . ." You know?--I really ought to imprint that line on…
James C. SchaapFebruary 24, 2012
Last summer, we’d just passed the bridge at Nijmegen where, 600 yards to the west, hundreds of GIs paddled…
James C. SchaapFebruary 10, 2012
"The 150 evangelical leaders who met behind closed doors on January 14 to anoint a Republican candidate for President…
James C. SchaapJanuary 27, 2012
The hardest work I ever did was a three-week stint--that's all--with a road crew cutting sod and laying it down…
James C. SchaapJanuary 11, 2012
Case closed. I'm an Iowan, once upon a time a Republican, and I am at this moment endorsing a candidate.…
James C. SchaapDecember 31, 2011
A half a century ago, I was a kid in a Sunday school class taught by a man who’d taught…
James C. SchaapDecember 16, 2011
My wife, who's now retired and therefore been home more often these days than she's been in the 25 years we've…
James C. SchaapDecember 2, 2011
