Stuff in the Basement

On his own, Meriweather Lewis picked up a kid named George Shannon in Pittsburg already, among the first of the crew he and Clark chose for ...

Aria Mia Loberti says she auditioned for the part, only because auditioning was something she'd never really done. She wanted the experi...

“Commit your way to the LORD;   trust in him and he will do this:”     I suppose we can, without pause, make the claim that we’re better tha...

Think Nessie, that hugely mysterious reptile thought to lurk in the dismal depths of Scotland's scariest inland sea, Loch Ness. Think Ne...

The wind rose a bit yesterday, took the edge off the heat--we're into fall, like it or not. The world outside my window dresses in paste...

You may have heard that a couple of judicial heavyweights teamed up to write an article for the Atlantic claiming Donald J. Trump cannot run...

How long ago? It was back in the days of the dropkick, a move designed to surprise the defense and turn what might have looked like an ordin...

Those who pull walleyes from Minnesota's 10,000 lakes are all fishermen, says Brenda J. Child, in her fascinating study of Ojibwe life, ...

  Commit your way to the LORD;  trust in him and he will do this: My kids went to Christian schools, and so did I.  So did their mother.  ...

Administration Building of the now defunct Pipestone Indian School A friend of mine, who is Navajo, told me about an old army buddy--make th...

I'm not at all surprised that "haste makes waste" has its origins in the Netherlands. It's such a Dutch idea, for pity sak...

There's always a gap, always a space, always an opening for us, for the reader. There has to be: art suggests; it doesn't preach. Ev...

And then there's Simone Biles. . . There's the rest, and then there's Simone Biles. Watch her perform, and you just might think ...

Okay, there's a story here, so let me unpack it. That's me. The earphones, like the sweaty neck of the shirt, suggest I've been ...

“Trust in the LORD and do good;  dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.” Psalm 37:3 Via e-mail, I asked a student I don’t know personally...

  When finally, his long descent from heaven ends, Satan and his minions find themselves sprawled out in a burning lake of fire. They are wo...