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James C. Schaap

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Another story

I can’t argue with anything Thomas Goodhart offered us here yesterday. My first perceptions of nuclear war came when, as a grade-schooler, we snuck under

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Me and the Winnebagos

I don’t know how long it took me to think about how strange it is that everything is “sioux” around here–Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Sioux

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Bernie and The Donald

It’s going to hurt me to say it. Honestly, it feels like a kick in the shins, a sharp stick in the eye, but I

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Tintoretto had it right

I am no expert, no theologian, no art historian; but for what it’s worth, I think Tintoretto had it right because the scene must have

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Tampico’s Ronny

  If you’re lucky, you’ll get her. She’ll tell you she was a tomboy when she grew up on the farm, probably mention it more

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Flags on stones

When you’re a frequent cemetery wanderer, as I am, it’s impossible to miss the importance of someone’s having served in the military . Today, people

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Lifeline

  Once upon a time, right here where I’m sitting, Holland Township, Sioux County, Iowa, got sectioned into homesteads by a gang of Hollanders up

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Rev. Robert Schuller, 1926-2015

  When Fred Manfred’s Gerrit Engleking, the raw-boned protagonist of The Secret Place, left northwest Iowa (under a cloud) and went to live in California

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