The Brown Bag Brigade will descend on a southwest Minot neighborhood this weekend – and for a good cause. The brigade from Our Savior’s Lutheran Church aims to build community connections and support a good cause by delivering empty brown bags to the doorsteps of 465 residences on ...
There are many sounds around us that make us take notice. When we hear an ambulance or police siren, we look around to assess its location to know if we need to pull over to let them pass. In the summer, when we hear the tornado siren, we look to the sky and check for weather warnings. Recently, as I began hearing Christmas songs, I knew that the season was not far away. As I pondered all these sounds, I wondered what Heaven sounds like. I have read about streets of gold and precious jewels and the light of God’s presence, but I couldn’t remember much about sounds. After ...
Bishop Ryan Catholic School held its annual Las Posadas celebration Tuesday, Dec. 16, continuing a tradition that blends faith, culture and community. Las Posadas is a Mexican and Latin American tradition that reenacts Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter before the birth of Jesus. ...
The Christmas story is more than just a Nativity scene for volunteers with Follow the Star, who strive to create an experience so authentic that guests walk away in awe of Bethlehem. Follow the Star has long been a part of Dakota Hope Clinic’s Festival of the Trees, but it has grown and ...
Recently, a mom, apparently overwhelmed by her husband’s job challenges, three young children, and financial struggles, asked me if there were things that I liked about being alone! Well, I don’t miss rushing home when I wasn’t done with appointments and errands because I needed to prepare lunch. I was frustrated, realizing that I could have planned better or prepared something in advance. However, I also knew that he often had headaches if he didn’t eat regularly. More importantly, I knew that he didn’t like being alone. He found love in my presence and because I loved him ...
I do have misgivings about using this column as an outright platform for all of the grief I and so many others are carrying in the wake of my step-daughter November’s passing. This paper’s readers aren’t coming to its pages looking to feel sad when they open the weekend edition, one ...
