Love, when you are young, boasts a lot of passion. When the couple declares “I do!” most mean love to last “until death us do part.” But sadly many marriages do not…
Nails were strewn over the parking lot of one church. Another church had police cars blocking the parking spots; still another had worshippers given notices of fines if the Christians persisted…
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I recently wrote a letter to the editor of the Prairie Press which was not printed because it was too long. Russ often chides me for being longwinded, which I readily admit…
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Many years ago a cousin of my father’s undertook to trace the lineage of our family, to find, as far as possible, the beginnings of our family tree. Yesterday, when researching…
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I have long had this subject on my desktop, but have had a writer’s block on how to process it for publication. For this post, we shall discuss hatred and show…
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In his article, Christ or Chaos: There is No Third Choice, Jack Kerwick gives the following example: Hannah Arendt, a German-Jewish 20th century philosopher whose family had to flee Nazi Germany, attended…
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I am obviously not an expert in the coronavirus or in the workings of the economy, but I read widely and listen to experts interviewed on the radio and television. We…
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Listening to the mainstream media and other liberal news sites these days is doing nothing to lift our spirits. All they talk of is the number of sick and dead and…
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One of the advantages of growing up where I did and in the circumstances in which we lived was to learn how to compromise to get what I wanted. I do…
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Continuing on the plan by Daniel Buck to survive the COVID19 scourge by self-isolating, we confront points 2 – 6 of his plan. These, to refresh our memories are 2: Set small…
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