Columns & Editorials

Everyone keeps saying we should do a better job of screening people for mental health issues, though no one really has a good solution for it.

Because I work in Disaster Relief I see more than my share of destruction and loss in person but I’m able to empathize with victims and keep enough emotional distance to do my job and not let it ge

In the time period between Joshua and Samuel the Prophet, there was no king in Israel. The people did what was right in their own eyes.

In the time that Judges ruled over the nation of Israel there was a famine in the land of Israel.

There’s something magical about the number 70 in my husband’s mind. As in 70 degrees.

The last few weeks I have traveled to St Thomas in the Virgin Islands several times…By phone of course.

Most of the people who come to see me have problems with control. Usually they want to control other people.

After years of working in Disaster Relief there is one truth at every disaster. No matter how busy you are, often you have to stop what you are doing and listen to a victim’s story.

Israel’s failures through the book of Judges is listed after the phrase “At that time there was no king (leader) in Israel and everyone did that which was right in their own eyes”.

A key issue in our society is the interplay between personal freedom and public safety. At what point does protecting the community outweigh the rights of the individual?

I apologize that I have not written my regular column this week as Lori and I are in Floresville to attend the funerals of our dear friends Bryan and Karla Holcombe along with the funerals of their

Much of the land of Canaan had been taken and assigned to the tribes of Israel. Joshua is now old and soon will die.

As some of you already know, my beloved father is in failing health. For the last two weeks he’s been in a hospice house.