Local Opinion

Our focus is on repairing broken relationships.

I was in the checkout line at my local branch library the other day, standing behind several youngsters slowly doing their own checkouts with minimal mother assistance. One librarian caught my eye with an “I’m sorry about this” glance to which I responded, “This makes my day.”

According to britannica.com, constellations are “…certain groupings of stars that were imagined — at least by those who named them — to form conspicuous configurations of objects or creatures in the sky.”

Americans tried to kill off bison, eradicate wolves, wipe out eagles and did drive the passenger pigeon into extinction due to environmental heedlessness.

There are days when I feel like my 62-year-old body is falling apart.

In Romans 12:17, the Apostle Paul reminds us, “Do not repay anyone evil for evil.”

In recent days, a new animal has appeared on the farm.

Over the past four decades, the United States suffered its first prolonged period of economic divergence. This type of divergence occurs when rich places grow at a noticeably different rate than poor places, which causes the standard of living to diverge. Roughly around 1980, the nation experienced broad convergence, and capital (businesses) and people migrated from poorer (lower-income, lower-cost) areas to richer (higher-income, higher-cost) areas.

Whenever and wherever we face relational conflict, someone is always to blame, someone is responsible for the conflict.

As I pulled into the driveway after sitting with a client in the emergency department for hours, I asked myself, “Why did it take this long and for him to get this sick for anyone to teach him how to read a nutrition label?”