Stuff in the Basement

I don't know much about life in a mega-church, but there have been moments when I've thought it would be grand to worship God wit...

I'll admit it. As a high school teacher, I wasn't always a model of sweetness. I sometimes said things to kids that were edgy at ...

One remarkable thing was to be noticed in the early settlement here that those that came here with money had but little advantage over th...

The old man front-and-center has a hooded lady behind him. Behind her is a couple--a tall man and a woman with a hat who appears to b...

“ Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.” Psalm 77:9 All...

Lapeer, Mich. May 1, 1920 Hon. Edward Voigt 181 House Office Building Washington D. C. Dear Sir, Edgar J. Hartman a member o...

Strangers, somehow brought together in their mutual anxiety by what's there for all to see on the river. "I came down to have a...

Her privacy is interrupted.  The park was empty, the river quiet, bedded down calmly. And then she felt it. It came into her like...

Carol's gone to the river to try to collect her senses. She's worried and depressed, even though she can't help but think ...

"River Hills" is a story about big conflicts that mask themselves as little ones. It has to rank as one of the most "clos...

“Why are you downcast, O my soul?  Why so disturbed within me?  Put your hope in God,  for I will yet praise him,  my Savior an...

I'm not sure who anymore--was it C. S. Lewis?--but someone who knows far more about John Milton than I do created an answer to an almo...

It was, we thought, a perfect place to rent. We'd sold our old middle-of-town house in the twinkling of an eye and found ourselves ho...