Stuff in the Basement

Here's what House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a speech Tuesday night at a National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL) banquet. W...

[Just happened on to this old blog post from four years ago. Killers of the Flower Moon is a stunner. See it. But we spent a long weekend i...

Just exactly why Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his men all died on a hill above a river named the Little Big Horn may never be known....

It's not that the mystery has been left unexplained. You can find, on any library shelf, dozens of books that try to peer into the madne...

In 1888, throughout Siouxland countryside, what habitation existed for homesteaders was all relatively new and, well, in its very own way, p...

“. . .and their inheritance will endure forever” I’m told that one of the all-too-human urges behind a desire to write something with some h...

Caroline and Will Henderson, Eva, Oklahoma She and her husband went to the revival because the church was their church too, sort of. She and...

The church was packed. Mom would have liked that. And all five "first ladies" were in attendance--she would have liked that too. S...

Snow fell that morning, early, even before children left for the schoolhouse, two miles away for some, occasionally more. Kids loved the mor...

  A January thaw is what all of us look forward to right now, a breath of warmth that reopens our hope that someday soon April will return. ...

“But their swords will pierce their own hearts,  and their bows will be broken.”   To his credit, Saul didn’t want the job.  In fact, he...

On a winter day that could well have passed for May just a couple of years ago, my wife and four-year-old granddaughter went for a walk, alo...

  My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;  I will sing and make music.  Psalm 57 I need to thank Garrison Keillor for drawing m...

Okay, maybe I was not thrilled. It's my job to clean up after Sunday dinner, but just because I know what I have to do doesn't mean ...

Most Reverend and Rightly Honorable Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has an impressive resume. After taking degrees from Eton Col...

There is one little basement window above my head and to the right. On mid­winter days, the sun rides so low in the southern sky that for ...

“. . .but the Lord laughs at the wicked,  for he knows their day is coming.” I don’t remember things like this happening when I was younger,...