Stuff in the Basement

This story is closing in on forty years old--well, older if we're talking prototypes, because this one, most certainly, has a prototype:...

Do not be anxious about anything,  but in every situation, by prayer and petition,  with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And th...

The background--well, even the foreground--you may recognize by its uniqueness. It's the Badlands National Park, a place I love to visit...

Eisenhower, reportedly, didn't like it much. He may have been okay with the development of the U-2, but he didn't like what was real...

I hope my wife disagrees, but I'm not about to ask her, even though thirty-plus years have run by. The truth of the matter is that the m...

It's hard to estimate, given Covid, but it wouldn't be much of a risk to guess that this summer more than three million visitors to ...

He says he was born in what we now call, without prejudice, "the black church," a fellowship where Easter Sunday meant best of the...

For it is by grace you have been saved,  through faith – and this is not from yourselves,  it is the gift of God. . . . Ephesians 2:8 I was ...

Somewhere in Nebraska. . .somewhere south of here. . . somewhere in the eastern part of the state--that's about it. I don't remember...

Because our pastor would like to celebrate the sacrament every Sunday, there are some questions about why. In our church, the tradition has ...

I remember seeing a forest of giant redwoods for the first time. There were some small children nearby, giggling and chattering and pushing ...

I find it hard--too hard--to watch the George Floyd trial, so I don't. I turn it off. I have no doubt that Derek Chauvin killed Mr. Floy...

What's not to love about Italy? Wherever you go, there's a story in art and culture and some kind of pasta dressed up in fine sauces...

May these words of my mouth  and this meditation of my heart  be pleasing in your sight, Lord,  my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14 The oth...

  I'm guessing he knew it was a big deal, but what he didn't know was how big. I can't imagine that this man, out on what he con...

Illustration from "The Lord Taketh and the Lord Giveth," a story by Cyrus Townsend Brady in the Ladies Home Journal .   South Dako...