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Articles by James Calvin Schaap

James Calvin Schaap is a retired English prof who spent 37 years teaching literature and writing at Dordt. When he retired from Dordt, he pulled up stakes in Sioux Center and pitched his tent north of Alton, where he lives out in the country with a broad backyard of fine Sioux County land. We’re cat people, he says, but can’t help thinking there are dozens of dogs in any nearby shelter who’d love to call their country place home. Who knows?

Labor Day: Stories of Work

  • James Calvin Schaap
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4 months ago

How we’ve worked has changed immensely in the last century, but Covid has forced us to see an arsenal of ordinary people with whom, literally, we couldn’t live without.

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  • Covid
  • Labor Day
  • work

Filled with Thanksgiving

  • James Calvin Schaap
1
1 year ago

It's 1944. Otto Steinke is too old to be drafted, his son just a few months too young. Besides, both are needed because the Allied cause requires mountains of food, food the Steinkes can produce on their Iowa farm. Not everyone can be a soldier—even some who really, really want to be.

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  • Iowa
  • thankful
  • thanksgiving

Pentecost

  • James Calvin Schaap
2
2 years ago

The Pentecost story can be, for some like me, greatly intimidating—all that super-charged energy in wild-eyed praise of the risen Lord, sheer madness—enough to make some of us question our place on plastic chairs or hard wooden pews.

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  • Native Americans
  • Pentecost
  • salvation

Giveaway

  • James Calvin Schaap
1
2 years ago

I first read about a Lakota giveaway on a Sunday morning in a book about the Yankton Sioux. Giveaways were a means by which wealth was distributed and people gained stature and strength.

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  • giving
  • Native Americans
  • traditions

The Book of Job and Our Human Suffering

  • James Calvin Schaap
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3 years ago

In this world, people suffer. It comes with the territory. You can wish that fact not true, but you cannot wish it away. People suffer.

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  • Book of Job
  • South Dakota
  • suffering

Empathy That Is Simply Divine

  • James Calvin Schaap
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3 years ago

Jesus was human. He was us, for us.

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  • Easter
  • faith
  • thirst
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