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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: The World: Survival or Surrender?

Only a few months ago Democrats were issuing slurs and insults about the confusion and disarray of Republicans. Now, since the election results in...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: How Do You Worry Me . . .

. . . Let me count the ways.  Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning but I just couldn’t resist. I had promised myself that I would...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: The Times They Are A-Changing

It’s been 53 years since Bob Dylan penned those words and the song became one of his early signatures.  By his own admission he...

DICK BAYNTON: Religion, Faith & Politics

By mid-2015, the world population had reached just over 7.2 billion people. World population increases at the rate of more than 227,000 each day;...

LUCKY GARVIN: The Lower Lights

I love to listen to the hymns sung by the late, great baritone Tennessee Ernie Ford. One of them, “Let The Lower Lights Be...

HAYDEN HOLLINGSWORTH: A Super Distraction

When times are really tough it is sometimes helpful to scout around for something to relieve the unremitting angst of real life.  Few would...