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James Schaap

A Pentecostal Sunday

This is yesterday afternoon, a gorgeous February Sabbath, and that’s my grandson writing a message in the light snow on the Floyd River with the

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Morning comfort, morning thanks

When my master’s program was over, I wasn’t enamored with graduate school, and I rather missed the high-maintenance life of a high school teacher. My

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Education

I showed them this old picture, something the turn-of-the century on the Rosebud, most of the kids outfitted in blankets, traditional garb.  We talked about

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River Vision

  It wasnt’ deja vu exactly.  I know that phenomenon, the distinct feeling that time and place is being strangely replicated; you’re somehow sure you stood in

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Traveling Mercies

 I’m not unaccustomed to traveling, but yesterday, like a thousand times before, I came up on a huge strip of truck tire, something peeled from

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Articles

The Unveiled

It should come as no surprise that death creates some unlikely bedfellows. Up here, up the hill, sworn enemies share a morning pot of coffee.

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Powerball

   News flash from CNN, just now read it when I opened my e-mail.  “Winning numbers for the nearly 580 million Powerball jackpot are 5-23-16-22-29.

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Some naked fear

 Sort of eerie is what it was. We came up over a hill and found it, just across the gravel from a sprawling field full

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Where the river bends

    Mitt would count them in his column, I’m sure.  After all, they certainly aren’t part of the 47% of us who leech off

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