Party pooping
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Reader has never published its own endorsements of candidates. The closest we’ve ever come to doing so was actually a dis-endorsement I wrote of Reader co-founder and editor-emeritus...
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A few thoughts… On monogenesis and Albert Schweitzer
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist Digging in the dictionary recently led to monogenesis, a theory that all living things evolved from a single cell — some combination of proteins and acids and God-knows-what-else that...
Sister of Eve
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Nana made our clothes until her hands couldn’t hold the thread. She dedicated her downstairs living room to the craft: pins and needles scattered across three tables, streams of...
A few thoughts… on holy holidays
By Sandy Compton Reader Columnist “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” asserts the song. The reference of lyricists Edward Pola and George Wyle and performer Andy Williams was, of course, to the...
Where did Christmas carols come from?
By Ben Olson Reader Staff During the first thousand years of Christianity, Christmas played second fiddle to Easter, the most important feast and celebration of the year. That might sound hard to believe in...
Surrendering our rights for the sake of politics
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff In the four years I attended Sandpoint High School many of my peers took their own lives — in 2015 we lost three in one year. The administration and...
Trump, Israel, and Christian Zionism
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist Every grain of sand between the Dead Sea, the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea belongs to the Jew [sic]. —Ed MacAteer, Christian Zionist We don’t care what the...
The American Redoubt Series: ‘Keeping the faith’ — The role of religion in the American Redoubt
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Faith and country Nearly 500 people tromped through a muddy, rain-spattered parking lot the morning of Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, bound for the Bonner County Fairgrounds exhibit building. As...
‘Love’ is God’s traditions
By Rev. Bob Evans Reader Contributor We have freedom of religion and separation of church and state because the founders of our nation knew something; no one tradition has favor in the eyes of...
