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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...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Satisfaction with God’s Blessing is The Best Way of Thinking

While reading a book a friend gave me recently, Learned Optimism by Dr. Martin Seligman, a quote about "thinking" made me pause my reading...

JOHNNY ROBINSON: Why I Run

Recently I saw a car sporting a bumper sticker that read, “I run so I don’t kill people.” I guess to most people that...

SCOTT DREYER: America’s Shame: Our National Debt

On Thursday, January 19, the US federal government reached its statutory debt limit of $31.4 trillion. Never before has the debt been that high,...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Rep. Ilhan Omar Goes Even Further Astray

Removing Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN5) from the important Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives was a necessary action the Republicans were right...

DEVOTIONAL: Employ Your Most Valuable Resource

Live life, then, with a due sense of responsibility, not as men who do not know the meaning and purpose of life but as...

SCOTT DREYER: Davos Draino

Davos is a town in eastern, German-speaking Switzerland with some 11,000 residents. (For comparison, the Town of Vinton has a population of about 8,000.) ...