Stuff in the Basement

So what exactly is a conundrum, should we find ourselves in one? Can't help it--this morning, it's just plain on my mind , and I...

  Should you wonder, the answer is yes, we do we have cone flowers. So, answer me this--what's not to like? Look at this one--there'...

Lucas CRC, Lucas, MI I know I was there before, but I honestly have no idea when. My guess is that, years ago, I escaped the writing confere...

It's almost impossible to follow the long succession of charges and counter-charges that banged along between synods and classes, betwee...

When the 1924 Synod met in Kalamazoo, it found, once more, that "the Sioux Center Affair" was there again like a reoccurring tooth...

This meditation is a decade old. I remember it well because I hoped my mother would never read it. The heft of the idea would likely not hav...

 In April of 1921, the synodical deputies announced that seven members of the original Consistory were "deposed," lost their jobs,...

WWI battlefield, still visible By January of 1921, what seemed obvious to the Sioux Center CRC Consistory was just as obvious to whatever po...

Donald J. Trump at Dordt University, January 23, 2017 I didn't see the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001. Let me take that back--...

It's hard to imagine many "Happy New Years" in town a few days after the Christmas Sunday School program shocker. The Teachers...

Be assured, the consistory of the Christian Reformed Church of Sioux Center, Iowa, felt little "peace on earth" on Christmas of 19...

 “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 and my God.” ...