Controversial days of Thanksgiving and prayer in early America
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist When you pray, go into your room and shut the door. —Jesus, Matthew 6:6 When the church and state tucked into bed together, it was the church that ended...
Category: Opinion
Downtown shopping a Sandpoint holiday tradition
By Lizbeth Turley Fausnight Reader Contributor I remember the first time my husband and I drove into Sandpoint in 2004. We were so excited about our future new home. Having been drawn in the...
That thankful time of year
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff I’ll be the first to admit that the question, “What are you thankful for?” gets old quickly this time of year. At the same time, despite my desire to...
Fidelity and Family
By Toni Kolb Reader Contributor I think back on my fluctuating childhood and smile. The ups and downs — it was a journey of memory making. I remember the seasons of beans and rice...
Mahatma Gandhi: Love other religions as your own
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist “So precious is a person’s faith in God that we should not harm that. Because God gave birth to all religions.” —St. Francis of Assis “I’ve broadened my Hinduism...
Back to the Future in Spokane?
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Last weekend, Cadie attended a conference in Spokane. I tagged along to work in the hotel room. Upon walking around downtown the first evening, we both noticed something was...
Engage Sandpoint app is making progress
By David Phillips Reader Contributor Recently, the city of Sandpoint launched Engage Sandpoint, making use of the service SeeClickFix.com. I was intrigued by this, being a long-time software geek and early adopter. I created...
The Late Night Buddhist: Don’t Put Descartes Before the Horse
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist French philosopher Rene Descartes famously said “I think, therefore I am.” (Actually, he probably said “Je pense, donc je suis,” unless he made a habit of spitting out philosophical...
Let’s give all this hate a rest
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The past week has just been awful in America. A man who killed two people in a Kentucky grocery store last Wednesday allegedly entered a predominantly black church just...
Don’t believe misleading facts about Proposition 2
By Sen. Shawn Keough Reader Contributor The official voters’ guide from the State of Idaho for November’s ballot contains several arguments against Proposition 2 (Medicaid Expansion) that are false or misleading. Among them: that...
