Stuff in the Basement

Let's just think of what's happening all around us on a line graph. If we were to create an arc that somehow documents or illustrate...

Peter Tefft, Fargo, ND My son is not welcome at our family gatherings I pray my prodigal son will renounce his hateful beliefs and retu...

If you can make out what's in the background here--hills and woods--you might not believe the old street scene could be right here in...

But the LORD is righteous;  he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked." Psalm 129:4 On his way home from his job at the pac...

St. Francis, Rosebud Reservation News from this week's Christian Century : Iglesia Ni Christo, a fast-growing church based in the ...

The Brits, some of them at least, were peeved, not simply because of the price Dreamworks set for British broadcast of Band of Brothers ,...

The news from Salt Lake City is not particularly comforting if you’re Mormon. One of the mighty has fallen, a saint from the inmost cir...

Nothing says teamwork more clearly than the way she runs together what got done that day, almost eighty years ago in an trying environmen...

Casey Kuipers became a missionary right here, just outside of town, when Dr. Henry Beets, spoke at the First CRC Mission Fest, somewhere a...

“ Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long.” Psalm 129:2              There were no clouds, the sun was going down...

The rusty one is mine. The other one, the one with no rust, the one with his initials--"RVG"--is his. Sometime--who knows when?...

The late B. J. Haan, the first President of the college where I taught for almost forty years, had a public persona so well crafted tha...

There was no good reason for General George Armstrong Custer to ride into the Black Hills in 1874, but nefarious reasons abounded, incl...

Hagar, by Edmonia Lewis, 19th century African-American/Native sculptor I'm not necessarily surprised by the numbers. I wish I were, ...

Honestly, I remember very well which of my new Siouxland friends said it, and the wily smirk across his face when he did. His line was...