All Posts By

James Schaap

Blog

Tampico’s Ronny

  If you’re lucky, you’ll get her. She’ll tell you she was a tomboy when she grew up on the farm, probably mention it more

Read More »
Blog

Flags on stones

When you’re a frequent cemetery wanderer, as I am, it’s impossible to miss the importance of someone’s having served in the military . Today, people

Read More »
Blog

Lifeline

  Once upon a time, right here where I’m sitting, Holland Township, Sioux County, Iowa, got sectioned into homesteads by a gang of Hollanders up

Read More »
Blog

Rev. Robert Schuller, 1926-2015

  When Fred Manfred’s Gerrit Engleking, the raw-boned protagonist of The Secret Place, left northwest Iowa (under a cloud) and went to live in California

Read More »
Blog

Cornerstone

  For 500 years “De steen die door de tempelbowers” was sung first crack out of the box at Easter morning worship, or so says

Read More »
Blog

A Concert in the Cathedral

It requires a theology to build a church like St. Anthony of Padua, in Hoven, SD. A couple of grain farmers don’t just get together

Read More »
Blog

Babylon, 1965

The year was 1965. Madison, to a couple thousand high school small-town Wisconsin boys, was Babylon. Milwaukee was our vision of a big city, but

Read More »
Blog

David’s Rage

I have been accustomed to call this book, I think not inappropriately, “An Anatomy of all the Parts of the Soul”; for there is not an

Read More »