Stuff in the Basement

He called last week to tell us that the insulation guys would be in, and soon, to replace what got soaked in five feet of river water. We we...

    Three long weeks after a flood the likes of which no river rats in the county had ever seen before, there's no missing what the beas...

“be merciful to me and hear my prayer” It is impossible to know exactly when King David might have written Psalm 4, but it’s not difficult t...

Pastor Tom wasn’t about to weigh in because after five years at Lakeside Church he’d come to understand the difference between fools rushing...

When Lizzy got back, she went to work almost immediately, searching through every dark corner of the church for potential converts. "I...

The Schaaps are moving back home--a one-story version anyway--so I figured I'd run an old story of mine, taken from the pages of Reforme...

It's difficult to deny what seems obvious--President Biden didn't want to do what he did, but he came to understand that putting nat...

Once upon a time long ago, I signed up to be on Kamala's team. I'm not lying.  I did, in Des Moines, Iowa, at a 2019 shindig that fe...

  “thou hast enlarged me” Psalm 4:1   It was always a little tough for us, having to return from week-long treks we took annually through ...

But Arnade’s Dignity does something neither of the other books do: it features the role of faith, the Christian faith, within the cultures ...

Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy , published already in 2016, got a running start on what has become since a familiar path. Vance used his own childh...

The rocket-like ascendency of J. D. Vance to political power in Trump's Republican Party is, to many, astonishing. I knew, somewhere alo...

It doesn't seem that long ago, but the dates on the pictures say April 10. Honestly, seems like yesterday. I was out at the pond south o...

  The greatly famous shot above features--you have to squint to see it--one of the bullets shot at the ex-President when he was speaking at ...

  “Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness”   Charles Spurgeon says this particular descriptive phrase (“God of my righteousness”...

  In November of 1980, I was a graduate student in hallowed halls, where most of my colleagues and professors judged the end of the world wa...

JD on the mound Look, truth be told, I'd vote for the guy even if he was (shudder!) a Republican.  Okay, that's stretching it a bit,...