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1. Madonnas of the Prairie.

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
*SCULPTORS, *AMERICAN sculpture, *MADONNA & Child (Art), *SEPULCHRAL monuments
Published
2023

2. C. Kuipers, mission novelist: bringing Christ to the Zuni--and to churchgoers back home

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Chant of the Night (Novel) -- Authorship -- Criticism and interpretation, Roaring Waters (Novel) -- Authorship -- Criticism and interpretation, Deep Snow (Novel) -- Authorship -- Criticism and interpretation, Missionaries -- Works -- Appreciation -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Christian literature -- Criticism and interpretation, Literature/writing, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

In the hot summer of 1978, I pocketed Cornelius (Casey) Kuipers' Roaring Waters (1937) from a medical mission on the Mississippi delta and then completely forgot about it. My assignment [...]

Published
2015

3. The professor's death song

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Psalm 121 (Poem), College teachers -- Death of -- Appreciation, Literature/writing, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

Psalm 121 The Lord Is Thy Keeper 1 I will lift up my eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my strength? 2 My help cometh from the Lord, which [...]

Published
2011

4. Rehoboth: righteous acts, filthy rags, and a mission cemetery

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
New Mexico -- Description and travel -- Social aspects, Boarding schools -- History -- Social aspects, Cemeteries -- History -- Description and travel -- Social aspects, Native Americans -- Culture, Literature/writing, Philosophy and religion, Description and travel, Social aspects, Evaluation, History
Abstract

The cemetery at Rehoboth, New Mexico, is hardly a tourist stop, even though thousands of travelers pass it daily, thousands more each summer. Just a few miles east of Gallup, [...]

Published
2009

5. Singing and preaching: Christians in writing

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Authors -- Religious aspects, Religion and literature -- Portrayals, Literature/writing
Abstract

The phrase 'Christian writer' is problematic when applied to somebody who subscribes to the teachings of Jesus Christ because it asserts a double identity. The only form of bigotry not banned from classrooms was prejudice against most religious faiths. Flannery O'Conner believed humility was difficult to attain in the culture of contemporary Christian evangelicalism.

Published
1998

6. Silent night, merciful night: an old, proud actor discovers that Jesus came for elitists, too

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Christmas -- Fairs and festivals, Startling Joy: Seven Magical Stories of Christmas (Book), Religious gatherings -- Personal narratives -- Excerpts, Philosophy and religion, Fairs and festivals, Personal narratives
Abstract

I AM NOT a Picasso, a brutal misogynist who inflicted terror on nearly every female around him. Neither am I a Hemingway, a drunken lout given to baring his chest [...]

Published
2005

7. Dancing with ghosts: Wasica at Chankpe Opi (a white man at Wounded Knee). (The Persistence of Indians: In Search of Native America)

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Battle of Wounded Knee, 1890 -- History, Siouans -- History, Historic sites -- Description and travel, Massacres -- History, Literature/writing, Philosophy and religion, Description and travel, History
Abstract

Think of it as a tawny ocean stopped in time, a vast landscape of grass, here and there mustache-like strips of trees darkening creek beds or running along the ridges [...]

Published
2002

8. Growing

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Short stories
Published
1990

9. On truth, fiction and being a Christian writer

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Christian fiction -- Authorship -- Personal narratives, Novelists -- Personal narratives, Philosophy and religion, Authorship, Personal narratives
Abstract

I was never a big fan of the Sugar Creek Gang novels, but I must have been the odd boy out, since our church library had tons of them, all [...]

Published
1997

10. Homecoming

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Short stories, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

The woman on the television was grotesquely, overweight, her air a thatch of gray, and what looked on the screen to be some flat, amberlike coloring. A huge T-shirt printed [...]

Published
1997

11. Something he needed to say

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Short stories, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

Wednesday - bacon, lettuce and tomato. Soon he'd have to throw the tomatoes away if he didn't use them. Thursday - pot pies, the kids loved them, even though he [...]

Published
1996

12. Growing

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Published
1991

13. A Visit to Vanity Fair

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
A Visit to Vanity Fair (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

By Alan Jacobs. Brazos, 172 pp., $18.99. BECAUSE OF HIS uncommonly fine use of language and the gracious character which emerges from his work, Alan Jacobs, who teaches English at [...]

Published
2001

14. 'Every knee shall brighteousness, filthy ow': rags, and a mission cemetery

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
New Mexico -- Social aspects -- Educational aspects, Cemeteries -- Social aspects -- Educational aspects, Ethnic schools -- Evaluation -- Social aspects -- Educational aspects, Native Americans -- Social aspects -- Educational aspects, Literature/writing, Philosophy and religion, Educational aspects, Social aspects, Evaluation
Abstract

Not long before he was tapped to serve as secretary of education in the Obama Administration, Arne Duncan, then superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, unveiled a pilot program set to [...]

Published
2009

15. The Milton Center: a nexus for writing & religion

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Authors -- Religious aspects, Religion and literature -- Portrayals, Composition (Language arts) -- Study and teaching, Literature/writing, Friends University -- Curricula
Abstract

The Milton Center at Friends University in Wichita, KS was created by Richard Foster in 1986 to link Christian writers. The quarterly entitled 'Image,' featuring fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, is one of the country's largest circulation journals of arts and literature and has been able to connect contemporary art with religion.

Published
1998

16. Growing Pains: Learning to Love My Father's Faith

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
Growing Pains: Learning to Love My Father's Faith (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

By Randall Balmer. Brazos, 142 pp., $15.99. WE HAVE FRIENDS who decided to release their children from all obligations to attend Sunday worship when those children turned 18. Their reasoning [...]

Published
2002

17. All God's Children

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
All God's Children (Book), Books -- Book reviews, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

By Thomas Eidson. Dutton, 327 pp., $23.95. Thomas Eidson's All God's Children is a frontier saga of courage and faith. That description outlines the novel's strength as well as its [...]

Published
1997

18. Pilgrim.

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
SHORT story (Literary form)
Abstract

The short story "Pilgrim" by James Calvin Schaap is presented.

Published
2010

19. Singing & Preaching.

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
CHRISTIAN authors, CHRISTIAN literature, GAY novelists, ETHICS, AESTHETICS
Abstract

Discusses the internal challenges faced by Christian writers in the U.S. Factors that contributed to the creation of Christian writing; Comparison of Christian writers with other writers, including gay novelists; Significance of a conflict between moralism and estheticism to the writers.

Published
1998

20. Growing Pains (Book).

Author

Schaap, James Calvin

Subjects
*FAITH, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Growing Pains: Learning to Love My Father's Faith,' by Randall Balmer.

Published
2002

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