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James C. Schaap

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Me and the Mormons

The news from Salt Lake City is not particularly comforting if you’re Mormon. One of the mighty has fallen, a saint from the inmost circle

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God, our Guide

I’m not sure why, but I think a killdeer is by nature given to excessive worrying. Ever hear ’em? But then, I suppose they have

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Our Good Samaritans

“It is best that we do not behold our spiritual beauty.” Rev. D. R. Drukker, The Beauty of the Lord. Eerdmans, 1927. Okay, at least

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Hope and Horror–Horror and Hope

The word lobotomy strikes terror in the heart of most of us today, despite the fact that the procedure was once the darling of mental health professionals–and

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Strawberry Fields. . .forever

In the cold of January, fifty-plus years ago, I sat in a car full of guys, my cased-up 16-gauge double-barrel in my hands, heading out

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What’s not there is telling

We visited Stratford-upon-Avon, of course, toured Shakespeare’s house and watched the Royal Shakespeare Company perform Julius Caesar in the Royal Shakespearean Theater. I vaguely remember

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Kingdom thugs

Two Tai Dam men, both of whom immigrated to this country as refugees after the Vietnam War, are grocery shopping. Seriously—this happened. Both of them

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