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James Schaap

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Testimony

Listen to a Christmas story podcast, written and read by James C. Schaap. An arrogant artist agrees to narrate the church’s Christmas program.

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A song without a story

William Jennings Bryan knew how to deliver a speech, a talent he picked it up as a kid and ran with, the youngest man ever

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Banned Books

You’ve heard, of course, the oddities, like the dictionary and the Bible, but what made the news this week was that Pen America, who tallies

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His first trip up river

Just about ten years ago, St. Louis University, a private Jesuit institution, moved a statue featuring one of its own founders, Father Pierre-Jean De Smet,

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March Madness

Just so happened to sit on a folding chair set up directly beneath the basket on the north end of the court last week at

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Running Water

In a sunny sky especially, the huge sandstone cutbanks along the Missouri can be perfectly stunning. To stumble on them after endless hours of treeless

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