Stuff in the Basement

Yesterday was the anniversary of Black Sunday, the day in 1935 when a windstorm picked up a part of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles a...

Some believers consider  Braveheart , the epic 13th century story of William Wallace, a proud and glorious hero to some Scots, to be a k...

The cross was the moment when something happened as a result of which the world became a different place, inaugurating God's future ...

First time I've asked for money in ten years. But we're 300 bucks short of the $2600 or so we need to place a full-page ad in ...

Somewhere in Nebraska. Somewhere south of here. Somewhere in the eastern part of the state--that's about it. I don't remember whe...

Pushing 70, as I am, I doubt I'll ever really get with the whole "Holy Week" program. I spent too many years in a Calvinist...

I don't have to tell this story. I could let it go untold, given the fact that right now, as we speak, our blessed, 14-year-old blue-...

“ When you give it to them, they gather it up;  when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.  When you hide your...

Is any sedum ordinary? With hundreds of varieties, it seems no single plant looks like any other, so to claim some blessed uniqueness for...

He's not the first. There's been others--three of them whose deaths have stopped me in my tracks. In each case, they were guys I kne...

What happened to her when she was a kid wasn't all that unusual among nomadic, war-faring Great Plains tribes. When hers--the Shoshon...

We sing the mighty power of God that made the mountains rise, that spread the flowing seas abroad and built the loft...

“. . .The earth is full of your creatures.    There is the sea, vast and spacious,   teeming with creatures beyond number—   liv...

Rarely has the first meeting between white folks and Native people been as richly visualized as it is in Terrance Malick's The New Wo...

Look, I'd be dead wrong to ascribe some sinful motive here, some kind of crass materialism to my mother-in-law's decision, once u...