Collecting My Thoughts

http://www.americanmadeeverything.com/2012/03/27/hartstone-pottery/ Today I picked up a pretty bowl made by Hartstone at the Volunteers of...

Cecile Richards is retiring from Planned Parenthood. Her legacy is 3.5 million lives ended. That probably makes her the most powerful woman ...

The national unemployment rate for blacks in April 2018 was 6.6%, the lowest it has been since the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) started ...

In my morning meditation time I’m reading through Kelly Kullberg’s book, A Faith and Culture Devotional for the third time.  Today’s sele...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6bHs8Vm3EQ&app=desktop Part of a PBS series Making sense of the Sixties. https://www.youtube.com/watch...

Today we’ll not be attending any particular service, but will be at a funeral for a faithful servant of God who died at 94, so I know we’ll ...

“Russia doesn't make anything . Immigrants aren't rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity . The life expectancy of the Russian ma...

"The wreckage of Barack Obama’s foreign policy is coming into focus. Syria: the “red line” fiasco, with hundreds of thousands killed. N...

The attention span of voters is short--like 24-48 hours, but today these four things help the Republicans. 1) Michelle Wolf, sickening co...

“Jacob Koehler, a senior from Springfield, Ohio, won the Ohio Right to Life Oratory Contest. The competition, which is held every spring in...

When I was a young child, health was sometimes combined with art at our school (we had no art classes in either Forreston or Mt. Morris) a...

Hot Cocoa Recipe With Honey Ingredients: 1-2 TBS (2 for a super chocolaty drink!) cacao powder 2 cups milk (we prefer using organic wh...

Can we do it? For the month of May we are giving up processed foods (my definition). So today we are finishing up the donuts and potato chip...

https://www.scribd.com/document/377409983/Gohmert-Mueller-UNMASKED# “I was one of the few who were NOT surprised when Mueller started sele...

The Bill Cosby trial and #metoo movement brings to mind a great movie to watch this week-end, just as a refresher in guilt and complicity a...

Sunday we celebrated with the Oromo Evangelical Church, which is part of our Lutheran synod. They had recently occupied a church building ne...

Although I don't think Kanye's remarks were political or economic (I think it was plain old friendship), the Democrats are deathly a...

Inheriting good genes and taking care of your body are important, but "Close relationships, more than money or fame, are what keep peop...

Ross Douthat is an author and New York Times Op-Ed columnist. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 2002. He is the a...