by Ken Sehested | May 24, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
The lectionary psalm (104:24-34, 35b) for Pentecost Sunday, which Christians around the world celebrated last week, omits the wrathful premise. Verse 35a reads: “Let sinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more.” After these words, the last half...
by Jack Moline | May 20, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I am afraid of poetry. I was never bitten by an iambic pentameter or terrorized by a sonnet. However, I am as bad at identifying good poetry as I am at filling out my brackets for March Madness. (This year I was out of teams before the Sweet Sixteen.) So, I mostly...
by Monty Self | May 7, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
In 1964’s “Mojave Crossing,” Western novelist Louis L’Amour argued, “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” A recent study published in the Journal of...
by Fred Guttman | Oct 17, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
For the Jewish people and for the residents of Israel, this is a terrible time. Frankly, I am angry! I am angry because I’ve seen too many pictures of Israeli bodies. I am angry because I’ve seen dead children, dead grandmas and grandpas. I am angry...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 3, 2021 | Opinion
The complimentary hotel breakfast featured good coffee, fluffy scrambled eggs and a rarity — rightly textured and properly seasoned grits. And, despite persistent rains, a skyline view was making an early morning appearance. Yet, one of the two televisions was tuned...
