Climate Change is a FACT
By Tony Lewis Reader Contributor First of all, climate is ALWAYS changing. That is a FACT! Let’s review a couple of things about climate. There are many variables to it, including: 1) Temperature (mean,...
Category: Opinion
Tragedy of the common sense
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor From a young age we are all inculcated with binary reasoning. An either-or form of logic which typically results in an excluded-middle (no in-between) paradigm, with only two alternatives:...
A hippie on the Long Island Railroad
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor The following is an unabridged journal of a conversation with my visiting kid brother, the late Christopher Clark Lewis, commuting on the Long Island Railroad from downtown NYC to...
Demystifying nudism: and other reasons to recreate nude
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor On the swim team I covered myself entirely in a towel and only shimmied out of it before I jumped into the water. I changed in the bathroom stalls...
Scotchman Peaks Wilderness: Why it is important for North Idaho
By Bill Harp Reader Columnist If you spend a lot of time looking at geography using satellite and aerial images like I do, you quickly realize that there are very few places in the...
Debating climate change in a post-logical era
By Christian Rose Reader Contributor It would be nice to have a civil debate with a climate change proponent — old school. But this is proving impossible. So I won’t waste your time outlining...
Living Life: Living the last third
By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist Like many, I have spent years raising children and helping them thrive. After working three jobs, seven days a week for years to help pay for college so my...
A different take on the Fourth of July
By Jan Sarchio Reader Contributor I can’t be certain about the numbers. It is my gut, more than my calculator, that knows that the trees sing less, that the skies aren’t peppered with as...
Canada at 150: Celebrating its liberal values and achievements
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Americans crossing the far western Canadian-American border pass by the Peace Arch. The inscriptions read: “Children of a Common Mother,” “Brethren Dwelling Together in Unity,” and, referring to the...
Sex Abuse among Evangelicals worse than for Catholics
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Protestants are going to have to accept the fact that we have many similarities with our Catholic brothers and sisters when it comes to how we have failed to...
