by Chris Smith | Mar 4, 2022 | Opinion
People want to know about their family history. They want to learn about their ancestors and forebearers – the “pillars” of their bloodline. This is why services such as Ancestry.com have become increasingly popular. Members of my own family have participated in these...
by Angela Grant | Mar 4, 2022 | Opinion
Worshippers approached one of three altars at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church to make the sign of the cross and light a candle. It was the first Sunday after the Russian invasion. I had arrived early and was basking in the glow of the paintings and icons that...
by Lina Toth | Mar 4, 2022 | Opinion
I grew up at a time when my home country, Lithuania, had been annexed by the Soviet Union. As I was raised in a family of Christian believers under considerable pressure from atheistic Soviet authorities, our attitude toward celebrations sanctioned by the government...
by Merianna Harrelson | Mar 3, 2022 | Opinion
I heard a horn honk from behind. I turned the car on and moved up the six feet. We were inching closer to getting swabbed again. This site was giving rapid tests and by the time you finished the winding journey down the street, in front of the urgent care and to the...
by Fred Guttman | Mar 3, 2022 | Opinion
The relationship between Polish people and Jewish people have been tense at times. For example, there was a strong disagreement in recent years between the governments of Israel and the Poland regarding memorialization of the Holocaust. It is time to put aside the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 2, 2022 | Opinion
Russia’s greedy invasion of Ukraine has the world in a tizzy, and for good reason. Land grabs are always ugly. It’s unlikely that Russian czar-for-life Vladimir Putin will follow the same path in which his war machine took the Crimean Peninsula away from Ukraine...
