Stuff in the Basement

Once upon a time I went monument hunting in a town called Morton, Minnesota. Very small town, very large monuments, but I couldn't find ...

      What she told us last night, among other things, was that she was much despised among some members of her community. What they wouldn...

"The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them."   For at least three reasons, the contemporary persecution ...

I've been here a dozen times at least, in all kinds of weather. Once, I happened to be here when the tribe's bison were all in a bun...

Some time ago, I unearthed an old cassette tape that held a sermon my grandfather preached in December of 1951, in Oostburg, Wisconsin, the...

For the record, we voted yesterday. I went only at my wife's insistence. She's not given to outrighteous me, so her devotion to the ...

It takes all of nine hours to get to Emo. If there were shortcuts, we didn't know 'em and didn't take 'em. We taught what cl...

It's impossible to avoid the inherent deception of the interview process. You've got split loyalties. At once, a writer needs to bud...

“But the meek will inherit the land and enjoy great peace.” Christian piety is, by the standards of some, never good enough. “Give all that...

  What follows is the rest of the Veldhuisen story, written and published more than forty years ago, a story all about what I thought to be ...

Yesterday, I included the first paragraph of a narrative I wrote fifty years ago, when I returned home after a long weekend in Emo, Ontario-...

That one is, I believe, among the most beautiful portraits I've ever taken, and it wasn't the least bit posed. A smile is breaking a...

Twice, Sunday, we sang "In Christ Alone." Morning worship at our own church. Evening service, with a pile of other churches at a R...

Anyone who takes prayer seriously will take former VP Mike Pence's description of himself seriously. Last weekend he shocked everyone by...

“A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.”   More than thirty years have passed s...

[With this addition, my little trip up the Missouri will end. Honestly, I didn't need to say anything at all because it's almost imp...

It’s as much a grave as a monument. For more than 100 years, an obelisk has stood mightily atop a chunk of granite, rising twenty feet into ...