Stuff in the Basement

It's an unforgettable place I've visited often. The first time, maybe twenty years ago or so, I was convinced that I was almost shoc...

That Donald J. Trump is wrong about a vast conspiracy of election fraud is abundantly and convincingly clear. He's lying. Millions are c...

Silo Solo My father climbs into the silo. He has come, rung by rung, up the wooden trail that scales that tall belly of cement. It's...

This is how Lewis and Clark saw it--well, recorded it anyway. It's their map. That huge snaking presence that begins in the corner, bott...

“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed,  you can say to this mulberry tree,  ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’  and it will obey ...

It's hard to know who may be most humble here--Mary or the Angel Gabriel. But humility here, for certain, is a great virtue. The Angel G...

  Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were of unquestionably heroic stock. Both came to their deep piety by way of the Second Great Awakening, and b...

  She's lying on a perfectly luminous Tahitian bedspread in a book of Advent devotions that is just plain, thoughtful devotionals amid s...

  Spotted it yesterday in a precious book of Advent meditations that includes some of the world's great Christian art. It's titled, ...

A couple of decades ago, I suggested a few negative things about Billy Graham in a piece I wrote for the Banner, the denominational magazin...

VanderWagen, second from left, teaching The Lord is my strength and my shield;  my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.  My heart leaps for...

  I've got this thing about dawns. That's why I was out there. It was forbiddingly cold, but if you want a stunning picture, pros sa...

"Walking beans" was never a joy, but it was tolerable when my father-in-law would talk about farming way back when he was a kid. T...

  "Pride" from Brueghel's Seven Deadly Sins There's no electricity this a.m. A car slid off the road and took out a pole ...

  It was wicked of me, but I like him and the guy is just plain interesting. He's as old as any autistic person I know, nearly 50, bless...