Stuff in the Basement

  “Ask and it will be given to you. . . .” Matthew 7:7  At the beginning of his book A Public Faith *, Miroslav Volf describes what he calls...

"When you get to the visitor's center, check out the blue dress--it belonged to Judy's great-grandma," she told me, referr...

Look. You got a choice. Either the Vice-President of the United States is right, or his boss is, the man we elected President in 2016. You...

  We'd started dating in January and had been married in June, a rush job, you might say, without the shotgun, both of us old enough and...

Confession: I'm an elitist. Sometimes I wish it weren't true, but I'm not likely to change. I don't think I can. I'd lik...

[For the record, I am listening to the angel on my right shoulder this morning, not the squire with the tail and tux and the wretched laugh ...

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you ...

Maybe it was the little chapel she’d insisted on showing me, a place she thought any visit to the Northern Cheyenne mission wouldn’t be comp...

I came upon News of the World the old way, by reading the novel, which I liked very much, by the way, didn't quite love it, but liked ...

If the place sounds cliche-ish, you can't blame Garretson, SD, because--doggone it, not every Siouxland burg has a regular tourist trap ...

  Coventry, England, a city of 250,00 in the West Midlands, boasted significant industrial power when the Europe went to war in 1940, indust...

You can't help feeling sorry for Christmas (the holiday, I mean) because no matter what goes on, the day only rarely lives up to its bil...

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,  and he will reward them for what they have done.  Proverbs 19:17 By nature I suppose, I’m n...

 Blessings  for a sweet and wonderful Christmas  and a wonderful holiday season  for all of my blogger friends!!

I only wish it was closer. If it were, this year I'd take my whole family to see the Algona Nativity, the POW museum too, because it...

Look, if anything in the vast Powder River neighborhood merits the word "monumental," it's the mile-high monolith that rises o...