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ANDY PITZER: “Look Mom! No iPhone!”

A very interesting visually recorded interview showed up on my feed the other night. In 1966, several British adolescents were interviewed about their vision of the future (circa year...

FRED FIRST: There And Back Again

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

SCOT BELLAVIA: Am I Proud to Be an American?

How proud are you to be an American? I posted that question on Facebook a few...

BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

Picture this: You manage to get everyone fed and the dinner aftermath cleaned up. Then...

“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!” Psalm 95:6 – By Rev. Dr....

One of the challenges on Sunday morning is determining the healthy line between holiness and false piety, between warmly welcoming the brethren and...

Music: Binding Our Lives Together

by Fred First A friend of mine is writing a book about people and places along the Crooked Road. On one of his interview...

Blessed Unrest: A Story of What’s Right about a Wronged World

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. During my recent attendance at the COP16 U.N. Global Climate Change Conference in Cancún, I learned from a friend...

A Father’s Diary #1

by Lucky Garvin Although my dear boy is now twenty-seven years old, he was once much younger; at which time the following  observations were...

Recipe of the Week: Ruby’s Liver Chip Cookies

by Leigh Sackett Dogs are such well loved creatures; the main reason, of course, being that they love us so well to begin with -...

One Spirit, One Body, One Church by Donna Hopkins Britt

Labrador retrievers were bred to swim; they have webbing between their toes to prove it.  At a farm, we would walk our Labs...