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James C. Schaap

Melville in Port au Prince

The image I won’t soon forget from Haiti’s National Museum is a elaborately rigged ball and chain from the nation’s horrific dark ages, the days

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Blue Highways

It’s not insignificant. Created in the late ’20s, during the heyday of such memorials, Bryant Baker’s Pioneer Woman stands formidably just off one of Ponca City’s main

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Theology at Sunday dinner

It was a while ago now, four short years, counting like a grandparent. I finished with opening prayer at a Sunday dinner, and Pieter, our

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An American Story

On Saturday, January 2, 1847, a young Senecan named Ha-sa-no-an-da, or Ely Parker, then just 18 years old, visited the U.S. Capitol on a trip

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Gifts

  I don’t use the word feeble very frequently, and my guess is that few of us do. If we use the word at all, we’re likely

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Testimony

Conventicle is an odd old word, but kind of fun actually, a word which suggests, by its composition, what it is–a kind of “mini-convention.” Only historians

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The Christian Reformed mission at Zuni pueblo, New Mexico, in the 1920s   “Depression times made return to Zuni unlikely,” Casey Kuipers wrote on papers

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Where the Tree Falls

James Calvin Schaap Our friend Lawrence told us he thought it might be good for our souls and there would be a death, a deliverance

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Authenticity

It’s age.  Why not tell it like it is? I wouldn’t be ornery if I were 24 or even 48.  I’m not.  I’m 65, and

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