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James C. Schaap

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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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Two stories of the black snake

Last night, late, I crossed “the black snake” three times on my way home from Rock Valley. Things have changed in the last few weeks.

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Repentance and Forgiveness

There’s so much to this story that’s old news, so much that’s so awful yet so obscenely ordinary, that what happened is almost predictable. To

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Rebels and Yanks

Chickamauga was a very costly Confederate victory. The total of 16,000 Union casualties was second only to the Battle of Gettysburg that summer, but the

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Nixing Holy Writ

Years ago, I listened to Phillip Yancey reading from a new book of his, a book titled What’s So Amazing about Grace? A couple dozen

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