Our lives are different from the Old Testament days. In our study at Westown, we are reading the book of Hebrews. It is an intense lesson with a much-needed focus from the student. I believe Paul is the author of this material. Paul tells us that many times, and in different ways, God has ...

Here is another side to recent opinions about schools written recently in the TR. In the early 70s, I saw the beginning of schools changing to accommodate more women returning full time to the workforce; half day kindergarten went to all day, lunches and breakfasts were served, after school ...

Iowa’s dental Medicaid program relies on private dental practices like mine to deliver quality dental care to Medicaid patients, and I am honored to give back to the community that has given so much to me. As a pediatric dentist in Marshalltown, 40 percent of my patients are children on ...

Hooray for the millions of hens whose lives will be “dramatically changing” because of an ongoing shift to cage-free eggs. (TR Feb. 13) Oh, that we would have the same compassion and zeal to champion children not yet born as we do for chickens in cages.

Most people have heard the phrase “speaking truth to power.” It usually applies to people outside the seats of power like Martin Luther King or Gandhi who railed against evil in all its ugly manifestations. Rarely have we heard U.S. Presidents actually rail against evil in the three ...

You’d marched a long way, Johnny, before I met you at a place called Gettysburg. How you lived coming across that big open field I’ll never understand; the artillery cut huge gaps in your lines, but on you came. You had fired your one round, and on you came with only a bayonet to face me ...