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James Schaap

Pioneer Women

There are two women in this story, two women and 125 years. One of them, this one, Renske, immigrated to America at the end of

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Memorials and Memories

He was, in a way, both a large part and a small part of the Allied Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944–a small part because

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Legends

Two other mountain men stayed with him, and one of them, Jim Bridger, would become even more famous than he. It was 1823, and they

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Coming home

Just a short chapter into Rudy and Shirley Nelson’s richly furnished international thriller, The Risk of Returning, Ted Peterson, who calls himself a “lost child,” is

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Not-so-secret sins

A phone call from my mother years ago–I think I was in college–included other news, I’m sure, but what she said after a deep breath

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Reclamation

Congratulations to Theresa Latini, blogger-extraordinaire, who gave birth to Eleanor Olivia on April 3! Please remember Theresa and Eleanor in your prayers. Filling in today

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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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