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MELINDA MYERS: 2024 Winning Flowers for Your Garden and Containers

Make some room in your garden or containers for the new All-America Selections 2024 National award-winning plants. These winning varieties are tested in trial gardens across the United States...

SCOTT DREYER: Rep. Cline Working To Stop Genocide Against Christians In Nigeria

Many are surprised to learn that the largest number of Christians who were killed for...

RANDY HUFF: Yearning for The Real

Thinking long and hard has mixed reviews. At least there's no utopia in the offing....

MORGAN GRIFFITH: He is Risen

As we approach Easter, I am always reminded of one of my favorite stories from...

DEVOTIONAL: Seeking Shelter

And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ,...

DENNIS GARVIN: Forgive – The Impossible Verb

Online Merriam Webster dictionary definition #1 of ‘forgive’: to cease to feel resentment against (an offender). Let’s be honest: this is impossible, unless you are...

DICK BAYNTON: A Coalition of Conspirators

Although many people have not recognized the transformation in our politics, there is no longer a ‘Democratic Party.’ What was once a political party...

DICK BAYNTON: Prevarication Politics

Prevarication is a word that means equivocation, fabrication, evasion of the truth, lying. Yes, it’s true in almost all political discourse and is often...

JOY SYLVESTER-JOHNSON: It’s Time To Grow Up

Lord Martin Rees, one of the world's most eminent astronomers, is an emeritus professor of cosmology and astrophysics at the University of Cambridge and...

DICK BAYNTON: Freedom of Speech

When I read an op-ed of medium length recently in the WSJ, I objected to the title that was a suggestion for Republicans to...

MIKE KEELER: A Slow Starting Parade

The first blast was almost a bust. On September 5, 1882, a few hundred working-class folks gathered in the streets of lower Manhattan near city...