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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,...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: What’s for Dinner?

That was the standard question when arriving home from Grammar School, as it was called in the days of yore. Getting the menu was...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: The Eight Pillars of Joy

Several weeks ago I briefly reviewed a book by Douglas Abrams entitled The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World.  It chronicles...

DICK BAYNTON: Virtue, Morality, Patriotism & Politics

It has been noticed by millions of observers worldwide that although the debate over the U.S. Presidency went on for more than a year,...

DICK BAYNTON: The USA in Turmoil: Despair or Destiny

Every citizen of this great land called The United States of America should be outraged at the news that has been distributed on Thursday,...

DICK BAYNTON: Winning, Losing and the Nobility of Both

The fabric of our Democratic Republic that has existed since 1776 is becoming frayed and tattered. Our Constitution and other important segments of government...

LIZA FIELD: The Oldest Valentine

  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.         ...