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SCOTT DREYER: Tribute to Jane Dreyer

On Saturday, February 8, 2025, my mother at age 93 went to be with the Lord Jesus in whom she put her trust way back in the 1970s. Her obituary: Jane...

DAWN CUSTALOW: Living Abroad – The Beginnings of an Expat’s Life Experiences

A junior year of studying abroad at the University of Barcelona, Spain was my first...

DENNIS GARVIN: My Struggle With Rap

I do not appreciate music as I should. Afflicted with a lead eardrum, I am...

BOB BROWN: Regarding Emotions

“Carefully shaped words can reshape the lives of people” because they touch the heart, breathe...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Stalin Would Have Been Proud Of New York Magazine

Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, also known as Stalin (“Man of Steel”) brutally ruled the Soviet Union...

Rural Church Centers Encourage Reflection

by Frances Stebbins With summer upon us, it's a good time to visit one of the several conference centers maintained nearby by churches to...

An Erstwhile Sense of Hopelessness

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. These days I am haunted by a growing mediocrity in our nation’s classrooms.  Having just finished more than two...

Freedom Brings Choices by Donna Hopkins Britt

“For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery….  For you were...

Bikes And Gravel: A Sure Rite of Passage

by Robert Adcox   The other evening while nosing around the 'net I came across an old photo of a tough-looking Stingray bicycle. For those...

The Most Bang for the Buck

by Hayden Hollingsworth Well, thank goodness we’re through with THAT!  The NBA Finals, of course. Just in case you’ve nodded off during the tedium...

Surprise! Happy 50th Birthday

by Mary Jo Shannon A fiftieth birthday is a true landmark – one-half century – and worthy of special celebration. Loving spouses often plan outlandish...