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James Schaap

Testimony

Conventicle is an odd old word, but kind of fun actually, a word which suggests, by its composition, what it is–a kind of “mini-convention.” Only historians

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The Christian Reformed mission at Zuni pueblo, New Mexico, in the 1920s   “Depression times made return to Zuni unlikely,” Casey Kuipers wrote on papers

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Where the Tree Falls

James Calvin Schaap Our friend Lawrence told us he thought it might be good for our souls and there would be a death, a deliverance

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Authenticity

It’s age.  Why not tell it like it is? I wouldn’t be ornery if I were 24 or even 48.  I’m not.  I’m 65, and

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St. Lucy’s

Today, in Sweden, a traditionally Lutheran country, most of the populace, I’m told, will go Christmas-crazy, having fallen in love a few centuries ago with

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The Book Thief

   Our fascination with the Holocaust seems unending, in part because nothing in the world’s recent past offers us such perfectly sculpted heroes and villians.

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Edward Curtis and Brother Andrew

Somewhere around the turn of the century, Andrew Vander Wagon, who was never an officially licensed pastor but became one anyway, determined to build a

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Love at super speed

Every so often Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac features some sweet nostalgia, sure to make almost anyone regret his or her no more being a kid.  Often it’s all

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Columbus Day

Alexander B. Upshaw, the son of a Crow warrior of some renown among his people, was one of many young Native Americans sent off to

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