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James Schaap

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First Cry in a Stable

It’s not a new story. I wrote it more than a decade ago, so it may well show its age. But I thought I’d try

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Divisions

Once you find the road in—the place is very much out of the way–the signs tell the story. I’ve visited twice, often enough to guess

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Hog-Hunting and Tote Bags

Got it this morning. Had no idea mature human beings could or would hunt hogs from helicopters, but this Texas outfit thought I might just

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Gerald Bosch: A Life

It’s all so understandable. From the vantage point of 75-plus years, the war seems ancient history. Besides, so many of those who fought had no

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Revelation

“Some of them just got too big for their britches.” People said that occasionally, that some farmers who went down during the Farm Crisis of the

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Father Baraga on shore

You’ll drive a long way to find a sandy beach on Minnesota’s north shore. That humpy stuff roiling beneath your feet looks and feels like

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Acknowledgements

Truth be told, there weren’t all that many people around. I was a little disappointed in the size of the crowd–three or four dozen, most

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Home-Schooled

A couple of weeks ago, out west on the Oregon Trail, I couldn’t help being astounded by both the clockwork and the sheer number of

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Tests

“It was a test,” he told me, after pulling me aside. “It’s a story I thought you’d like, a story I wanted to tell you.”

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