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Commentary: Racism in west central Minnesota The following is a commentary submitted to the newspaper by a reader. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Echo Press. To submit a commentary or a letter, send it to aedenloff@echopress.com or Echo Press, P.O. Box 549, Alexandria, MN 56308. 2:30 pm, Apr. 7, 2021 By Jon Koll, Alexandria, MN Racism in the USA is part of a larger and ubiquitous system of Caste. Isabel Wilkerson, in her recent book on this topic, describes a caste system as an artificially constructed ranking of human value that sets the presumed superio...

What Happened? March 30, 2021 The doctrine of creation in six literal days is foundational to the Christian faith. God the Creator of all things has revealed in Scripture the authentic account of Creation. He made “the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1), and all living things upon the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day of creation week. The first man and woman were made in the image of God, as the crowning work of creation, and given dominion over the world, and charged with responsibility to care for it. When the world was finished it was “very good,” declaring the glory of...

Guiding Light: Be aware that God is always watching over you! This, I believe, is the mantra for modern man, struggling with the problems of isolation, alienation and rootlessness that characterise life in the twenty-first century. On the upper galleries of the cathedral of Milan, there are many statues of saints carved in exquisite white marble. The dedicated sculptor who created these masterpieces was busy at his work when one of his friends came to see him. “I don’t see why you are wasting your artistic effort in such a place. High up here, in these unseen galleries, nobody will...

Dr. Edward Jenner performing his first smallpox vaccination on James Phipps, an eight-year-old boy. May 14, 1796. Jan. 28—With just 15 million Americans having been administered vaccine against COVID-19 to this date—and far, far fewer even in many developed countries—the success of the COVID-19 vaccination drive depends on more than production and distribution rates and public health systems. It also needs what seems, in the United States, to be a scarce virtue among its citizens: commitment to the General Welfare. The words are capitalized in the great Preamble to the United States Con...