Stuff in the Basement

“You drench its furrows and level its ridges;  you soften it with showers and bless its crops.” Psalm 65:10 In Texas last we...

Yesterday afternoon I sat with a old man who, once upon a time, shot at surfacing German subs in the North Atlantic, tried to p...

In trouble We've lost our story, lost the narrative that once upon a time strung together our lives and our purpose and vision. So ...

For Veteran's Day, a story from Bert Witvoet in The Christian Courier . There are no rifles in it, no smoke of battle, no glorious ac...

In trouble Anna Case and August Deaton, a  pair of famous researchers from Princeton, have crunched some remarkable numbers and come up...

I may be wrong, but I don't believe I've ever heard a sermon on that particular OT passage, something out of II Kings, a visitation ...

“ You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly.  The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people wit...

A stark dawn, bright sun, first frost of the season--at least the first that was visible. A beautiful morning, really. Deer hunters all over...

An emotional Fox Lake Mayor Donny Schmit described the slain officer as a personal friend, a three-decade member of the department and a fa...

If you stand in just the right place, what you can still make out in the middle of things is the kind of fortress the mission once saw it...

On one of those first cold days--not January-cold, just cold as in "not summer"--I wore a sweatshirt when I worked outside. Cam...

Personally, I've always thought it interesting that Christians can repeat the Ten Commandments so earnestly and still believe Sunday i...

There is no way of knowing whether he ever picked up the book, but because Casey Kuipers, a CRC missionary at the Zuni pueblo for many ...

“ Those living far away fear your wonders;  where morning dawns and evening fades you call forth songs of joy.” Psalm 65:8 A ve...

Just a couple of weeks ago, a gymnasium full of grandparents, ourselves among 'em, were serenaded by seventy-some kindergartners who ...