Collecting My Thoughts

Our church is offering an educational unit on "Depolarization" to help members face the increasing divisions especially in the cur...

When we began attending UALC in 1974 we met a young couple who were students at Luther Seminary in Bexley, Dave and Pam Mann (although she m...

My e-mail is out of control. I'm not asking for solutions. This is a rant, not a cry for help. I think I get 50-75 a day, and I've s...

  We have a page a day calendar of birds on our kitchen table. Today I said, Mandarin Duck, that's the most beautiful bird I've eve...

Today I was looking through my recipe box (sort of a historical archive now since I rarely bake) for something cobbler like/lite and found a...

It was snowing in Columbus, OH, on January 19.  I'm recovering from back strain and much improved, so was tackling the laundry. My adult...

NPR--liberal:   "The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with the implications of overturning a nearly 40-year-old precedent that cou...

For Christopher Dawson, author of Religion and the Rise of Western Culture, “The importance of these [Middle ages] centuries. . .is not to ...

On January 8, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that 378,504 people have arrived in Egypt since the war in ...

I think our women's group (WOW) at UALC has shown every Beth Moore video available. I wouldn't say she can't speak against Trump...

They're at it again, and even more viciously. Those "defenders of Democracy" (what a joke) are trying to destroy the First Am...

"In 2020 alone, 30,250 people died while riding in passenger vehicles. Forty-five percent of these were in cars, 34% in light trucks, a...

 From WebMD  Low Back Strain Causes, Treatments, Exercises, Prevention (webmd.com) So what is low back strain? A series of muscles and ligam...

I keep a gratitude notebook, and despite all my blessings, sometimes I draw a blank. That's when I write down the truckers, miners, USP...

Richard Hanania is an American writer and political science researcher. He has written for such publications as The Washington Post, The New...

 The book of Ecclesiasiticus (church book) also called Sirach or Wisdom of Ben Sira is part of the Catholic, Orthodox, Syriac Peshitta, C...

"A member of Congress investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol estimates the FBI had 200 undercover assets both insi...

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It's hard to keep up. This past week there was news about Hunter Biden, but was it just in 2020 we learned about the laptop? How the inf...

Joe Biden gave a speech at Valley Forge on January 5. It was embarrassing. He got so much wrong. Who writes his speeches? George Washington ...