Grandiose ideas
By Mark Reiner
Reader Contributor
Government, democracy, religion, Christianity: all grandiose, big, expansive ideas that have moved humanity to form unions, and to kill each other. There are many more …
By Mark Reiner
Reader Contributor
Government, democracy, religion, Christianity: all grandiose, big, expansive ideas that have moved humanity to form unions, and to kill each other. There are many more …
By Mark Reiner
Reader Contributor
Sandpoint’s only metaphysical church commonly called The Gardenia Center is going up for sale this March. Until her passing, Marilyn Chambers, the founder of the …
By Mark Reiner
Reader Contributor
Many people, especially newcomers, have no idea what the Gardenia Center is and what it does. Recently, a nice lady thought it was a garden …
By Mark Reiner
Reader Contributor
There are many articles decrying the chaos of the recent past. Most of them call for a unity based upon real communication, tolerance, and a …
By Mark Reiner
Reader Contributor
My wife and I are two of those “back-to-the-land” hippies Ben referenced in one of the earlier “Redoubt” articles.
A large portion of us moved …
By Melannie Wurm
Reader Contributor
In our modern world of pop rock and Justin Bieber, of repetitive lyrics and commercialization and Spotify, it is easy to forget that music can …
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