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Reflections: Are we independent or dependent?

The plants that beautify our world depend on bees and butterflies to carry pollen from one flower to another. They also depend on sunshine, clean air, rich soil, water and weed removal so that they can grow tall and develop into the flowers, vegetables, grains, leaves, needles or fruit and nuts that they were created to do. After I had been out of town for a few days visiting my grandchildren, I checked the progress of my garden. I noticed that, even though I had put a trellis among the peas, they started reaching over to the carrot row for support. However, the carrot tops cannot ...

Area churches to celebrate legacy of former pastor

From the plains of North Dakota to pioneer leadership in urban ministry, Rev. Robert Polk’s journey is one of faith, resilience and transformative leadership. Polk, 97, a former Minot YMCA youth director in the 1950s, will be returning this month to revist former congregations and take ...

Church rummage sale on June 7

Minot’s Congregational Church at 430 N. Broadway, will hold its annual church rummage sale on Saturday, June 7, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Almost everything will be free-will offering, with proceeds going to church missions.

Reflections: Walking in darkness leads to falls

I came home from a meeting one evening in the middle of March, hung up my coat and headed across the dark living room when suddenly I faceplanted. As I got off the floor and headed to get some ice, I felt something trickle down my cheek. I touched my face and found blood. I grabbed some paper towel to clean my face and to wrap around an ice cube that I applied to my eye. Then I headed to the bathroom to survey the apparent damage. I saw that the bleeding came out of a split in the skin. Immediate swelling of the eyelid indicated that a black eye was a sure thing. Even my glasses were so ...

Students witness papal announcement

ROME – Two Minot students at the University of Mary participated in one of the most significant events of the Catholic Church on Thursday as they joined the thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square in Rome to witness the announcement of the election of a new pope. Jordn Wolsky, ...

Local clergy react to Pope Leo XIV’s election

The Rev. Todd Kreitinger, of St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Minot, said he wasn’t free to follow the proceedings as Cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the next pope of the Roman Catholic Church as he was busy with his ministries. In fact, he hadn’t even learned the name of the new pope until he was in the middle of Mass on Thursday. “I had to ask from the ambo, the pulpit, ‘Do we have a new holy father? What’s his name?’ so I could now say his name in the Eucharistic prayer,” Kreitinger said. “They nodded and someone said ‘Leo,’ so I was able to include ...