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James C. Schaap

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Cornerstone

  For 500 years “De steen die door de tempelbowers” was sung first crack out of the box at Easter morning worship, or so says

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A Concert in the Cathedral

It requires a theology to build a church like St. Anthony of Padua, in Hoven, SD. A couple of grain farmers don’t just get together

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Babylon, 1965

The year was 1965. Madison, to a couple thousand high school small-town Wisconsin boys, was Babylon. Milwaukee was our vision of a big city, but

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David’s Rage

I have been accustomed to call this book, I think not inappropriately, “An Anatomy of all the Parts of the Soul”; for there is not an

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The man from Stonewall

Here’s the story the way the docent tells it. There are two halves to the boyhood home of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of these

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Boulder Train

I know, I know–there are places on earth where at some times of the year day is night and night is day. I shouldn’t complain about

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The End of the War

  It was Ian Frazier’s Great Plains that taught me something about the Ghost Dance. I’d never heard of it before; but then, most white Americans haven’t.

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The Echoes of War

  War stories normally take on the motif of initiation because no one, thank goodness, is ever prepared for watching friends–buddies–die and die fitfully; war

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