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James Schaap

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The Crimson Tide

Metaphors and other descriptors, like men’s ties and women’s scarves, move in and out of style. No respectable preacher can say much about the church

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Heavyweight Evangelism

I’m thinking that you have to be of a certain age, a certain vintage, to use a word like ungodly with any seriousness. There’s open

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Small Blessings

From her chair in the living room, she knew something was wrong because the sound she was hearing just wasn’t right, as if the door

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The Children’s Blizzard

A January thaw is what all of us out here look forward to right now, a breath of warmth that reopens our hope that someday

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“Count your blessings”

Some psychologists want to drop the last initial in PTSD. They claim that to call PTSD a “disorder” makes the condition appear unusual. It isn’t.

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Tell me why

What’s altogether possible is that it’s not a great novel. What makes me believe I can write a novel good enough to be published these

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Vets, 11/11/16

I suppose “9/11” has already edged out “11/11” among our memorable national numerical icons, but I’m forever imprinted with the latter too. In me at

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