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National Columnists

Wave of return to faith is rising

If you were looking for young people distraught over Sept. 10’s brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk here in Pittsburgh, you were looking in the wrong place. They went to The Sanctuary church by the busloads. Even Pastor Jason Howard was taken aback by the size and scope of the number of ...

We must condemn all political violence

Political violence must be condemned in all its deplorable forms. Recently, we lost a 31-year-old young man, Charlie Kirk, by the act of a cowardly madman. An evil doer may have thought he prevailed when he took the life of this young man with a beautiful wife and kids, but evil failed ...

Battle ahead for capitalism vs. Mamdani

As Zohran Mamdani rides frontrunner status in the final seven weeks before the mayoral election, he’s moving rapidly to the left. Despite efforts by the business community to build bridges with Mamdani, he is ratcheting up his anti-capitalist rhetoric, equating profit with greed, rolling out ...

Football players use their ministry gifts

With the 2025 college football season underway, the Ohio State Buckeyes are hoping to defend their national title and once again forge their way through the playoffs. Their path to the title of beating four ranked teams was epic last year, especially after a disappointing loss to Michigan. ...

Columnist represents world of caring for each other

A 99-year-old woman died Sept. 16. Though I’d never met her, I cried as I read her obituary. Her name was Marilyn Hagerty, and even as a nonagenarian, she was still writing the same gentle restaurant reviews that had made her briefly but brilliantly famous. She wasn’t famous in the new ...

Back when children walked to school

When I was a boy, my brothers and I walked more than 2 miles every weekday. This was because we lived a little bit more than a mile from the school we attended. Our home was in the Dominican neighborhood of San Rafael, California, which was named for Dominican College, the then-all-girls ...