By Sean Dietrich It’s late. And I wasn’t going to write this, but I have to. Not only for me, but for the good of our children, and our children’s children. No matter how hard it is to address. I’m talking, of course, about the highly controversial issue of homemade ice cream. Ice cream wasn’t […]
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There seems to be so much anger and hatred in our world right now and so little forgiveness and love. It’s not as if this struggle to forgive is a new issue for any of us. When someone hurts us or someone we love, our first and most natural response is to take offense. However, […]
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By Sean Dietrich Remember back in church when they used to tell us to pray for the shut-ins? Well, that’s exactly what I’ve become. A shut-in. A lot of people have become that way since this coronavirus thing started, millions have been stuck inside. And it’s the little things we’ve lost that hurt the most. […]
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By Lauren Catanese I believe in a blessed life, where we get to live and experience the highest version of ourselves. It is possible. Like Mr. Impossible, a children’s book I read as a child, told the story of a funny character who no matter what obstacle he came against, he would find a way […]
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Ideas for Quietly Bringing Change By Kirk McCarley A few days back I read an article by Tim Denning, “Be Aware of the Quiet Ones like Keanu Reeves—They are the Ones that Actually Make You Think.” In all honesty my knowledge of the actor Reeves is limited. I know of him from “The Matrix” and […]
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By Rev. Pete Hyde It was the summer of 1968. The Scouts from Topeka loaded up early and headed to the beginning point of their week-long adventure. They were going to spend the next 5 days hiking 50 miles of the actual Santa Fe Trail that runs from Independence, Kansas to Santa Fe, New Mexico. […]
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By Rick Moore Behind-the-scenes programs show how movies are made. They reveal green screens and special effects that can take an audience to new worlds and exotic places. For decades, Hollywood has teased us with brief glimpses behind the curtain to see how the magic is made. One trick-of-the-trade used in both movies and in […]
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By Myrna Conrad We live in such a fast-paced world today. Technology has made things so much easier and faster, while at the same time made us expect quick results for almost everything. We expect instant gratification. We have become less and less tolerant of waiting in line for anything. We don’t want to wait […]
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By Kirk McCarley The Dark or Middle Ages were a post-Roman time in European history marked by significant misery. Though historians disagree as to its exact timeline, most say it lasted several hundred years, with some stretching the parameters as long as the ten centuries between 500 and 1500 AD. Even the end days of […]
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By Lauren Catanese “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take one step at a time.” How is your journey going…the life you are living? When we are little, we dream big and have all these different aspirations and experiences we want to accomplish. Then life happens, right? And we get taken down […]
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