Use your words (before your genitals)
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
When comedian Aziz Ansari became the latest recipient of a sexual misconduct allegation, it took me a few days before I opened the story.…
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Mike’s Corner: Rain
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I’ve always liked the rain, listening to it dance on a tin roof or watching the steam rise off that roof after it quits and …
Mahatma Gandhi’s profound influence on Martin Luther King
By Nick Gier
Reader Columnist
Christ furnished the spirit and motivation, while Gandhi furnished the method.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent …
NCHOPS: The building blocks of life
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I was thumbing through a biology textbook the other day and stumbled upon the periodic chart. You remember it: the big, scary, multi-colored banner of …
The healing power of simplicity
By Gabrielle Duebendorfer, ND
Reader Columnist
Invariably, some time before Christmas it hits me – the feeling of being enfolded in woe. Nothing seems to go right. My brain goes …
The view from the bench
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
I had a lot of coaches growing up. Between volleyball, basketball, soccer and tennis, I listened to a lot of different advice between the …
Single In Sandpoint: Aaaah, January…
By Scarlette Quille
Reader Columnist
Personally, I have never understood why we start our year in January. I don’t even want to start my car in January, let alone a …
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 …
When You’re Smiling: Part 1
By Tim Henney
Reader Contriabutor
It’s difficult to describe how powerful several bulging bookcases of vinyl, long-play records have been in shaping my life.
A 1956 Cal-Berkeley co-ed has been …
The False Prohpet Motive: Greed is (not) good for the planet
By Tim Bearly
Reader Contributor
For countless millennia we homo sapiens have maintained our dominion over nature. We’ve penetrated every corner of the globe, cultivating plants and domesticating animals along …
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