by Jack Moline | May 12, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The author Cormac McCarthy wrote a book called The Road. It is absolutely exquisite while, at the same time, absolutely brutal. Read it at your own peril. In the course of the story, which I will not recount here, a father realizes the price of remembering his life...
by Jack Moline | Apr 14, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
My long-time friend David Currie is the grandson of James Manson “Manse” Patton. David’s grandfather, from Paint Rock, Texas, ran a bank. He ran it on this principle: “A man’s character is his best collateral.” I am not going to try to interpret or deconstruct these...
by Jack Moline | Mar 14, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
In Hebrew, a koontz is a trick, sometimes what in English would be called a prank, sometimes a hack, and sometimes what a smart aleck says to get away with something. I really considered using a koontz for this column, putting Bishop Larry Campbell’s words at the top...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 9, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The term “woke” has been championed by those seeking more knowledge about issues and decried by others for being an overzealous attempt to reinterpret reality. Some politicians have picked up the term, lashing out at “wokeness” as if it were an extension of extreme...
by Alicia Mumper | Jan 26, 2023 | Opinion
I first heard about there being a first half of life and a second half of life through Father Richard Rohr’s book Falling Upward. However, where I am learning the most about this idea is in my own life. I am living the difference, and the second half of life feels so...