e have just passed the greatest annual event in civil religion when we all – even some atheists – joined the chorus “God Bless America” to honor the United States, believing somehow that God is still dealing with countries even though the New Testament made faith a personal rather than ...

The transfer of nuclear weapons from Russia to Belarus has stirred comment about the possibility of a nuclear war. Since invading the Ukraine, Putin has said repeatedly that Russia would use nuclear weapons if it became necessary. NATO said that it did not see any need to adjust its ...

I knew going in that my initial draft for this column was going to be a tough sell. I had already hoed this row more than once in the last year and had rewritten the thing four or five times after my wife read through a draft and commented that I “went a little hard in the paint.” So, I ...

Ignorance costs more than education. This point has been made over and over, yet we treat education as though it was just another governmental function. It isn’t. It’s the only opportunity that can provide a stepping stone for all of the dreams of North Dakota children. The media are ...

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas – home, at the time, to 250,000 enslaved Black people – and announced that the Civil War was over, slavery had ended, and Black people ...

Did you know that the bank JP Morgan agreed to a settlement recently with the victims of Jeffrey Epstein to pay them $290 million? The bank apparently chose to avoid a very ugly and public accounting in court for their business dealings with the convicted sex offender during a discovery ...