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BOB BROWN: “Portraits of the Human Person”

On the night of June 21, 2025, President Donald Trump said all seven B2 Bombers had safely returned from an unprecedented successful attack on Iran’s fortresses of nuclear weapon...

BECKY MAUPIN: The After Bedtime Search

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

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Israel’s Second Sum Of All Fears

I first heard about a dirty bomb in early September 1993 when an IBM coworker,...

BOB BROWN: What Happened to Happiness?

We can quibble about the origin, even the definition or meaning of “happiness,” but I’m...

FRED FIRST: Homeward Bound

It would happen: the trip back to Floyd. And then it wouldn’t. And then it...

How Do You Sense God’s Presence? by Carey Kinsolving

"I feel God's presence when I walk through the woods and take time to look around at all His beautiful creations like the...

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify . . . by Stuart Revercomb

While the technologies now available in our modern culture have made us more efficient, they’ve also weighed us down by providing us with...

On Grieving

by Lucky Garvin On the 5th day of May, that year of our Lord 2011, my beloved Dobie, Rock died. We had a vet...

It Wasn’t A Male Thing, After All

by Mary Jo Shannon “Check out what Dean Davis is driving! A big black Ford truck! Is that cool, or what?” “Dean Davis” is my...

Give Me A Ring

by Robert Adcox Nothing will drive a person crazy quite like a chronic ringing in the ears. Anyone who has suffered from Tinnitus can tell...

Life Imitates Art . . . And Then Some

byMike Keeler Oscar Wilde wrote that Life imitates Art more than Art imitates life. And he wasn't even considering the tourism factor. Perhaps the most...