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BOB BROWN: Lost and Found

All of us encounter loss. The meaning we attribute to loss influences our response to it. Our losses accumulate. They range from minor to unimaginable. Last week, two sets of...

FRED FIRST: Where You’re From

In the very early years of writing, I was exposed to a poem called “Where...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: I No Longer Watch Baltimore Orioles’ Baseball Games

I no longer watch Baltimore Orioles’ baseball games. I now only watch innings, and if I...

ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

RECAP: I would be able to visit southwest Virginia again–home for almost 40 years, and...

The Difference a Preposition Can Make by Dr. George C. Anderson

A prepositional phrase that is key to Paul’s theology is repeated frequently in Galatians and Romans pistis Christou.  To translate pistis Christou in the...

The Real Business of The Day

by Lucky Garvin This is a thing I’ve never been able to do: take the day at its full measure.  I’m at work. Now...

A Thimbleful of Humility

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. It underlies the celebrated cathedrals of the world.  It underlies the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Wall of China,...

Terra Sapiens: On Our Beholding to the Soil

by Fred First After a recent and welcomed early spring rain, I stood in the soggy garden and stirred aimlessly with my boot at...

Japan and Our Reaction

by Hayden Hollingsworth I recently came across an article in Newsweek entitled, “The Myth of Gracefully Growing Old.”  The title says it all: it is...

Here’s A Little Serving Of Mashed History

by Mike Keeler The Andes were not made for farming.  It’s cold and rainy, and the soil is rocky and thin.  But when the...