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Loving our neighbors under flame: A reflection on grace, action

Letters To The Editor

To the Journal editor: In recent weeks, our social media feeds have been flooded with reactions to the devastating natural disasters facing our Canadian neighbors. Sadly, rather than prompting grief or a desire to help, these events have been met by some individuals with judgment, claiming these hardships are "the end of times" or "divine punishment" aimed at Pride Month. This tendency to weaponize natural disasters to score ideological points reveals how deeply a self-centered political and social culture has pulled us away from the core of the Gospel. We must confess that our faith ...

War or peace?

Columns

"We are doomed and our leaders are insane." So wrote journalist Matt Taibbi recently. Taibbi didn't respond to our request for an interview, but he raises issues that deserve debate. So my new video is based on his column. "Not one of our presidents ..." Taibbi writes, "can resist ...

A political lesson from the 1994 'Contract with America'

Columns

Since the beginning of the 21st century our leaders have put us in a very deep hole. We have had countless broken promises and flowery words that would make William Shakespeare proud. Some "leaders" have done more to help themselves than they have given back to our nation. Congress has an ...

A city on a hill no more

Columns

Since the Fourth of July celebration of the nation's 250 years was a bust, let's look at the next anniversary, noting when a Puritan governor declared that we would be as "a city upon a hill" in 1630. Almost 400 years later, in our summer of desperation, that's a quaint ...

Nebraska's Osborn is really real

Columns

"A Face in the Crowd" is the prophetic 1957 movie about a charismatic drifter "discovered" in an Arkansas jail. The face belongs to "Lonesome" Rhodes, a scoundrel whose folksy act catapults him to national prominence. "Lonesome" (Andy Griffith) abuses women, but the crowd only sees a lovable ...

Primary voting options abound

Editorial

At a time when voting by mail has been increasingly challenged — President Donald Trump has repeatedly leveled unfounded claims of fraud against absentee ballots, including in his prime-time speech a week ago in which he called them "inherently corrupt" — state election officials this week said more Michigan voters are opting to use this method this summer. With two weeks left before the Aug. 4 primary election, 572,553 Michigan voters had already cast their ballot, according to data publicly available on the relaunched Michigan Voting Dashboard, mi.gov/votingdashboard. Voter ...