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Drill, Baby, Drill?
Irony and paradox fill our news sources this Thanksgiving week. Our TVs, computer screens, newspapers, and many of our personal conversations are consumed with elements of it. In Ferguson, MO, individual violence and anarchy have begotten mass violence and anarchy, … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Family, and Culture, Holidays, In the News, Insights, Right Side Up, Thanksgiving, Wake Up Calls
Tagged Ferguson MO, Thanksgiving
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Your Voice?
Next Tuesday, November 4, is Election Day. It is a time when our voice is heard in a unique and significant way, yet some tend to think that their voice doesn’t matter. Maybe we would do well to consider the … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Politics, Faith, Family, and Culture, In the News, Insights, Right Side Up, Wake Up Calls
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Looking for a Balance of Trade
Among this week’s chronicles revealing that the proliferation of violence in our world has certainly not abated, there was the disturbing report of a terrorist attack in Canada’s parliament. Many of us were shocked—though more an obligatory response to a … Continue reading
All the Threats Aren’t Microscopic
A young nurse named Nina Pham is now famous, but not in any of the ways she might have preferred to be. As most of us know, she contracted the Ebola virus in the course of her work in treating … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Politics, Faith, Family, and Culture, In the News, Insights, Right Side Up, Wake Up Calls
Tagged Ebola
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“Harvested Madness”
Sometimes we find ourselves surrounded by a backwash of information regarding events that take over all the headlines and envelope every form of social media. I usually try to avoid those subjects. I don’t normally like writing about what everybody … Continue reading
Posted in In the News, Insights
Tagged celebrities, Robin Williams
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Raising Yellow Jackets
A recent news article reported a tragic story of a 12-year-old girl who was stabbed 19 times by two classmates, also 12-year-old girls, and who amazingly survived. Apparently, the incident was the end result of a murder plot hatched by … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Family, and Culture, In the News, Insights, Wake Up Calls
Tagged Father's Day, Holidays
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