The summer solstice arrives and it is very green here in Dubuque. The seasons change; we cannot control the rotation of the earth or its revolution around the sun. Climate...
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"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and to the service of our great Imperial family....
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“See you next fall,” one church member says to another at the end of May. After all, the summer season is beginning. The expectation is that many pews will be...
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It is hard to relinquish power once you have it, particularly when it is unlimited and unquestioned power. President Obama Thursday acknowledged both the helpfulness, even necessity, of having the...
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“We're going to send them [the police] as soon as we get a car open,” said the dispatcher. Amanda Berry replied, “No, I need them now before he gets back.”...
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President Barack Obama, once a year dubbed the Comedian-in-Chief, knows how to use humor to uplift rather than to tear down. Oh, he’s funny enough. That’s not my point. What...
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The morning after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed forty-five years ago I walked around the block as usual to the home of my friend, Linda. Our neighborhood Bible study...
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President Obama went to Israel as the celebration of Passover nears and as Holy Week begins for Christians. So quickly President Obama flew to the Middle East and back. Here are...
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Two years before Vatican II, I was consecrated a Lutheran deaconess. My uncle, a Roman Catholic, could not come to the service because he believed his church would not permit...
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There were just 42 of us, sitting around tables at St. Mark’s Community Center in this small Midwestern city of about 60,000 but we all knew why we were there....
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