Columnists
DEVOTIONAL: Thanks, Mom!
Her children rise up and call her blessed -- Prov. 31:28a (ESV)
We celebrate Mother's Day once a year, but how can we adequately express our gratitude? For starters, if...
MORGAN GRIFFITH: Is Government Research Safe?
It has been roughly four and a half years since the start of the COVID-19...
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler,...
FRED FIRST: To The End of The End of The Book
The uncertainty and never-ending unknowing may soon end. For the past year, there has been...
SCOT BELLAVIA: A Chance Rescue
Normally, I wouldn’t have been driving home. I went to church early to set up...
DENNIS GARVIN: Forgive – The Impossible Verb
Online Merriam Webster dictionary definition #1 of ‘forgive’: to cease to feel resentment against (an offender).Let’s be honest: this is impossible, unless you are...
DICK BAYNTON: A Coalition of Conspirators
Although many people have not recognized the transformation in our politics, there is no longer a ‘Democratic Party.’ What was once a political party...
DICK BAYNTON: Prevarication Politics
Prevarication is a word that means equivocation, fabrication, evasion of the truth, lying. Yes, it’s true in almost all political discourse and is often...
JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: It’s Time To Grow Up
Lord Martin Rees, one of the world's most eminent astronomers, is an emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and...
DICK BAYNTON: Freedom of Speech
When I read an op-ed of medium length recently in the WSJ, I objected to the title that was a suggestion for Republicans to...
MIKE KEELER: A Slow Starting Parade
The first blast was almost a bust.On September 5, 1882, a few hundred working-class folks gathered in the streets of lower Manhattan near city...