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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...

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...