James C. Schaap
ContributorDr. Jim Schaap doesn’t know what on earth happens to his time these days, even though he should have plenty of it, retired as he is (from teaching literature and writing at Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA). If he’s not at a keyboard, most mornings he’s out on Siouxland’s country roads, running down stories that make him smile or leave him in awe. He is the author of several novels and a host of short stories and essays. His most recent publications include Up the Hill: Folk Tales from the Grave (stories), and Reading Mother Teresa (meditations). He lives with his wife Barbara in Alton, Iowa.
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A Calvinist witch doctor haunted the reformed areas of Siouxland. -
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Jim Schaap meditates upon the tree Anne Frank observed outside her window as he lays upon his hospital bed watching a maple. -
Jim Schaap, caught by the image of a falling barn, imagines the pasts that are beyond recall and remembers that pasts that are difficult to confront. -
When farmers kidnapped a judge, outside agitators like Mother Bloor were blamed. -
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Stories from the survivors of the 1888 Children's Blizzard. -
When the war came to a brief lull in Luxembourg, two GIs came up with a plan to bring a small bit of joy to the long-suffering children. -
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The colonial history of North America's first Christmas Carol.
