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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,...
DICK BAYNTON: Independence Day #242, 2018
Not everyone realizes that The Revolutionary War lasted over 8 years - from 1775 to 1783. Officially, the conflict began when the Colonial Militia...
The Bears of Kings Canyon
The hand-written notice at the campground registration kiosk is an eyebrow-raiser. It says, "Attention: Bears have been breaking into cars here. DO NOT store...
DON RIPPERT: Virginia is For Lov . . . Er, Haters.
Perhaps we need to revisit Virginia’s public accommodation laws. A sad scene unfolded in Lexington, VA last Friday evening. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s Press...
HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Is The Sky Really Falling?
Back in the day when bedtime stories were read to children, one of the favorites was that of Henny-Penny, the chicken that had an...
JOY SYLVESTER JOHNSON: Vanishing Discretion
At age three my grand daughter Faryn has no shame about her body. In fact she is happiest sans any clothes at all. All...
BRUCE RINKER: Fragmented Schooling
Mitchell Thomashow is an eminent science educator and writer who founded the Environmental Studies program at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH....