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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...

The Difference a Preposition Can Make by Dr. George C. Anderson

A prepositional phrase that is key to Paul’s theology is repeated frequently in Galatians and Romans pistis Christou.  To translate pistis Christou in the...

The Real Business of The Day

by Lucky Garvin This is a thing I’ve never been able to do: take the day at its full measure.  I’m at work. Now...

A Thimbleful of Humility

by H. Bruce Rinker, Ph.D. It underlies the celebrated cathedrals of the world.  It underlies the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Wall of China,...

Terra Sapiens: On Our Beholding to the Soil

by Fred First After a recent and welcomed early spring rain, I stood in the soggy garden and stirred aimlessly with my boot at...

Japan and Our Reaction

by Hayden Hollingsworth I recently came across an article in Newsweek entitled, “The Myth of Gracefully Growing Old.”  The title says it all: it is...

Here’s A Little Serving Of Mashed History

by Mike Keeler The Andes were not made for farming.  It’s cold and rainy, and the soil is rocky and thin.  But when the...