Stuff in the Basement

Could be you heard this, but in case you didn't, here's the news. A social work professor from Calvin College, a sister (well, mo...

It is a legitimate question, quite frankly, and among a select breed of academic historians, something of a hot one. The example that li...

As a rule of thumb, amazon.com never looks better than when arriving cars thread the rows looking for the last open spaces in the mall par...

“I cried out to God for help;  I cried out to God to hear me.” Psalm 77:1 The kid was eighteen. He was in his last year of high...

In the Netherlands, people make a game out of the outlines of the nation's little burgs, the silhouettes its towns cut against a gray...

This brand fresh spanking new book of meditations, just out, signed by the author--me--can be had for a meager $15. Send me a note on Fac...

It was a dream I had, but the vision has faded now that Donald Trump determined no Muslims will come into this country until a bunch of sm...

The woman in the story was a practiced marksmen, or so authorities have concluded. When she and her husband got stopped in the black SUV t...

It's altogether possible I came from the factory with more capacity for window-peeking than ordinary people. I know this much at leas...

“ The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing.”  Psalm 65:13 Tr...

No historical record exists to document the size of Paul Bunyan's snowshoes, but they had to be cyclopian.  What is known is that i...

If I've got this right, then the way yesterday should have gone down would have been something like this, right? At 11:00 a.m., when...

One can only imagine how annoyed white folks were on the bus that afternoon. After all, it was the end of another working day and nobody...

What I liked best about Brooklyn , the movie, was the exceptional graciousness of its characters, all of them really. Only one, an old Ir...