Stuff in the Basement

I dropped in on a country church in south central Nebraska two years ago now, a lively bunch of Mennonites who'd come to the region 1...

I'm not sure why, but I was a bit surprised to find out it was a country church, set outside town with enough distance to seem only t...

“ For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.”   Psalm 90:4        ...

My sister sent me some wonderful 1873 Timothy O'Sullivan sepia-tone shots of the West, which thrilled my soul not simply because of...

It's a stretch--I admit it--to think of Robin Hood as a hero somewhere out here on the Great Plains takes some suspension of belief.  Ye...

In the summer of 1968, I wasn't political enough to be a supporter of Robert F. Kennedy. As I mentioned yesterday, I remember thinking...

The exact circumstances of my being in Grand Rapids, Michigan, right then I don't remember. What I know is that I didn't have a jo...

It's not fun. In fact, it's anything but fun. It's rough sledding, a few joyful moments, sudden splurges of the divine, an...

“ O LORD Almighty, blessed are those who trust in you.” Psalm 84 We first spotted the nest when a robin flew up into it, so close ...

Just exactly where the Rev. John O. Schuring takes his readers in this old 1946 tract is not at all surprising.  What he's after is co...

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat doesn't buddy-up to liberals generally. Most dislike him. Scroll through his trolls sometime; ...

She told me that they learned to march at the boarding school. She said they got really good at it, too. She claimed she learned to enjoy...

“It’s kind of like whack-a-mole for the other side; it’ll drive ‘em crazy that they’ll have to divide their resources out in opposing this,”...

Let me guess, because I have no way of knowing.  I found this cross in an American war dead cemetery far south in the Netherlands. V...

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