[Melanie Campbell] Wildfires and Clouded Vision

A few weeks ago, my town was blanketed with thick smoke and covered with ash. Wildfires were dangerously close and people in nearby areas had to be evacuated from their homes. There were reports of arsonists setting other fires. It was chaos, doom and gloom. In other words, another page in the nail-biting saga of

[Dana McNeely] An Intersection of Time and Eternity

Some time later the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. He grew worse and worse and finally stopped breathing. She said to Elijah, “What do you have against me, man of God? Did you come to remind me of my sin and kill my son?” ~ 1 Kings 17:17-19 (NIV) After

[Janalyn Voigt] Tasting History: Most Popular Cookie of the 1920s

The 1920s started as an era of prosperity and ended with the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression. This decade brought both Prohibition and repeal. Women gained the right to vote. Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and other “lost generation” expatriate writers composed classic literature in Europe. Young women ditched corsets

[Linda Thompson] Reflections on V-J 75 and WWII’s End: Why Is America Worth Preserving?

Reinforcements wade ashore at Saipan, June 1944 Today marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of a momentous occasion. When the Emperor of Japan announced his nation’s surrender on August 15, 1945, the deadliest war in history finally drew to a close. And yet, given the challenges we face in the here and now, I am concerned this

[Susan Kimmel Wright] Who Has Despised the Day of Small Things?

How to deal with the perpetual uncertainty of 2020? We know how it’s been dealing with us—economic upheaval and a deadly virus like the devil in 1 Peter 5:8, who “prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” This is all compounded by the daily indignities of quarantine, masking, and social distancing, lest