by Randall Balmer | Nov 10, 2022 | Opinion
I resolved some years ago to stop tracking birthdays, although I do have to calculate several times a year. Let’s see, 1954 to 2000 is 46, then add … what year is it again? This birthday, number 68, would be unremarkable but for the fact that my father succumbed to...
by Richard P. Olson | Nov 2, 2022 | Opinion
There is one “-ism” that seems to receive less attention than the others: ageism. In her book Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders, Mary Pipher suggests a connection between ageism and xenophobia, writing: “In America, we are xenophobic...
by Autumn Lockett | Oct 26, 2022 | Opinion
We had a plan. We executed it perfectly. And then, on September 21, 2022, it completely fell apart. In premarital counseling, Josh and I dreamed of having a big family. We wanted four kids: two girls, two boys. My goal was to be finished having babies by age 35....
by Zach Dawes Jr | Oct 7, 2022 | News
There were 233 million working children in 2021, with 160 million in conditions of child labor, according to a report published on Sept. 28 by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Of the 160 million in child labor, 79 million were...
by David Wilkerson | Sep 21, 2022 | Opinion
My 14-year-old son participated in some awful calculus today. He heard that there was an active shooter at my school and, though he wanted to text me for assurance that I was OK, indeed, still alive, he feared that a beep or vibration might alert a predator to my...
