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JOHNNY ROBINSON: The Changing of the Tires

The car I drive now doesn’t even have a spare tire. Can you believe that? I was suitably enamored with the vehicle to buy it anyway, though. I guess...

FRED FIRST: Facing Forward. Facing Back.

Maybe it’s okay that I can’t go back twenty Januarys past, or ten as a...

BOB BROWN: “A Very Heavy Heart For The State of The World”

A neighbor sent the following email to all who reside in this part of Albemarle...

ROBERT L. MARONIC: Hands Off Denmark!

President Trump has repeatedly called for the annexation of Greenland since 2019, recently appointing former...

BOB BROWN: FITNESS AND DEMENTIA

We focus today on the role of fitness in the prevention and management of dementia....

Getting Involved by Pastor Tim Harvey

When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is...

Technology and Health Care Costs

by Hayden Hollingsworth Is there such a thing as too much technology?  I’m about to release my Inner Curmudgeon but it’s something to ponder. In...

Beware The Puppet Mistress

by Jon Kaufman Have you ever felt like your life was someone else's science project? I feel that way quite often.  The sense that...

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,...