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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: Tolerance As a One-Way Street

Your first financial transaction could have been when you were a six or seven year-old and one of your parents gave you a quarter...

H. BRUCE RINKER: Do You Believe In Gravity?

An oncology nurse at a nearby research center asked me on an unseasonably warm day in late winter if the spring-like weather might be...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Don’t Fall For It!

Fortunate are you if you haven’t been the recipient of a scam phone call.  I’m not talking about the unsolicited calls to lower your...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: A Commonweal Congress

Let’s make an assumption:  The elected members of Congress have the common good as their first interest.  That’s what commonweal means.  And wouldn’t it...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: Coping With Loss

The only constant in life is change; nothing stays the same.  Sometimes the rate of change is so slow as to be imperceptible.  Other...

DICK BAYNTON: Internationalism and Where It Leads

The word ‘Internationalism’ probably means something different to different people, but here is a possible definition by those who, especially in politics, ponder the...