Two Sundays ago our Pastor used the scriptural story about the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37). There was a severely injured man on the roadside. Two priest/temple workers came by but hurried to other meetings they had to attend. A third man, a Samaritan, walked up and bound up the injured ...
I was giving Buster a tour of SE Iowa. Out on the edge of Mt. Pleasant there was an old tumbled down shack, made of logs. Buster looked at it and said, “I could take something like that, fix it up, and live in it.” Ever since then, we called that old shack, “Buster’s Fixer ...
It is so sad that Rep. Al Green (D) from Texas, who was thrown out of Trump’s lie-filled news conference for speaking up when Republicans who did the same previously during Obama’s conference had gone completely without reprimand, and that Sen. Bernie Sanders (Democratic Socialist) from ...
We cannot ignore the DOGE slashing up funds to services for us as individuals or globally is happening. This has become a severe reality to my family. My son-in-law is a Doctor who has been treating patients around the world for over six years with tuberculosis (TB). His work has been ...
Civil rights are not reversible. Once the ratchet of rights has been opened, they cannot tighten. This was the argument of Martin Luther King, Jr, who stated numerous times, including after the famous march to Selma, that “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward ...
The last few weeks have been the most destabilizing for Social Security in its 90-year history. America’s historic retirement security program has survived world wars, pandemics, and recessions. But without a rapid course correction, it may not survive Donald Trump and Elon Musk. In ...