By David Faust When the chemical engineer Alfred Nobel died in 1896, his will established a trust fund for rewarding outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, literature, and medicine, as well as the famous Nobel Peace Prize. Ironically, Nobel gained a significant portion of his fortune from inventing dynamite and explosives used in war. It’s […]
By Christy Barritt Parent Thrown Out of Common Core Meeting A man in Ellicott City, Maryland was arrested after asking a question during a pubic forum meeting of the Maryland State Department of Education in Baltimore County. The meeting was about the Common Core curriculum—a new set of federal standards that will be applied […]
By Jacqueline J. Holness Aside from the summer months, Christmas is “the most wonderful time of the year” to me. Although the sky tends to be the dreariest shade of gray and the bare trees are a visual testament to nature’s hibernation during this season, I don’t notice them as much because of the […]
By Sam E. Stone It had been 400 years since the last of the Old Testament prophets appeared on the scene in Israel. The angel Gabriel’s announcement—first to Zechariah, then to Mary—broke Heaven’s silence. When Zechariah was told that he and his elderly wife, Elizabeth, would be the parents of a son (John), the […]
By Bev and Phil Haas With our busy schedules we seem to be living together but separately. We’re not looking to smother one another, but how can we grow closer—in our extended family as well as our immediate family? We live in Ohio, and even though it’s just the two of us at […]
