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James C. Schaap

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What has to be said

I didn’t see the Twin Towers go down on 9/11. Let me take that back—because I was in class, I didn’t see the collapse, not

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Fanny Crosby out back

It’s that season again when, out back whacking weeds, I’m accosted by Sunday School melodies that seep into my consciousness from some obscure memory tank

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Fool Soldiers

Just exactly why the Fool Soldiers decided to rescue the hostages White Lodge and his band had captured–and abused–is a question no one will ever

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Legacy CRC

For someone like myself, not to bring up the CRC Synod, which begins today, is quite frankly impossible. Pardon the me-ness of what’s here, but

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“Daily sacrificial commitments”

David Brooks’ gracious tribute to Tim Keller in Tuesday’s New York Times is the kind of lament that manages somehow to bring light into and through the palpable

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The Old Fiery Cross

I’d like to believe it was the music that did it. What was going around him, what spread like a prairie fire, must have tested

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Fort Forgiveness

If you’re following the Trail, when you get to the river, hold on to that GPS because while finding the First Council Monument doesn’t require

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