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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...

A Father’s Diary #1

by Lucky Garvin Although my dear boy is now twenty-seven years old, he was once much younger; at which time the following  observations were...

Recipe of the Week: Ruby’s Liver Chip Cookies

by Leigh Sackett Dogs are such well loved creatures; the main reason, of course, being that they love us so well to begin with -...

One Spirit, One Body, One Church by Donna Hopkins Britt

Labrador retrievers were bred to swim; they have webbing between their toes to prove it.  At a farm, we would walk our Labs...

Riding the Hangzhou Express

by John Robinson The three gray-suited workers hover like bees over the gracefully-shaped nose of the most beautiful train I have ever seen. OK, so...

A Multi-Layered Tragedy

by Hayden Hollingsworth Everyone is in agreement about the terrible event in Tucson: It was a very public tragedy. How ironic that it should...

Nothing is Impossible

by Mary Jo Shannon One of the most inspiring women I have ever met was Frances Landers, a housewife from El Dorado, Arkansas who...