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I began this column thinking about Jesus’ Parable of the Good Samaritan from the Bible’s book of Luke. Pretty much everybody knows the gist of this moral story about loving

You’ve got to love my sister. She forwards me a ton of online material that she receives from a wide variety of sources, including much that neither she nor I

The world has grown so desensitized to the offenses of Vladimir Putin’s Russia that the visible signs of torture on Islamic State terrorist suspects in court for the recent attack

Lent is over – and I’m kind of sorry.

Rutherfordton, North Carolina, is my hometown. I was born there in a two-story white- frame house in June of ‘43. It was still standing a few years ago, but I’m

Gloria Steinem turned 90 years old last month. She is the oldest living feminist from an era when this was a sign of being a “serious woman.”

It took two weeks for me to read Kao Kalia Yang’s new book, “Where Rivers Part.” That’s because at various times, I would stop and weep. For the hardships that

For years, a multitude of factors beyond the control of school districts have been impacting school budgets and tax rates: demographic shifts, pandemic disruptions, the end of federal funding, and

The author has been impressively uncompromising and, after the Cass review, how could she forget what those actors supported?

Things have cooled down considerably since the discovery of human remains at Butu Road, Valsayn, on March 13. The body was excavated after a tip-off by a male relative who