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A vast, divergent land

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The United States of America is 3.8 million square miles, filled with 340 million people, producing over $30 trillion in gross domestic product per year. We are the fourth largest country by land, third by population and first by GDP. We no longer know each other, care for each other or like each other. We are a nation of isolated people staring at screens and filled with existential terrors about the other, whoever the other might be. On Tuesday night across America, those existential terrors played out with fear of the other. Hispanic voters who voted for President Donald Trump and ...

We must understand the covenants God made with His creation

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And it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. Genesis 17:11 I believe we should have some understanding of the covenants that God made with His creation if we want to comprehend His purpose for our lives. To gain some understanding we will look at a few covenants in the Old Testament and then compare them to the “new covenant” that Christ instituted before He went to the cross. Hopefully, this will help us to understand the new covenant, the sign of the covenant, and the consequences for someone who violated the covenant. We will begin by looking at God’s ...

Friendship with sinners, part two

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Editor’s Note: This is part two of an article submitted by Rev. Dr. James Barnes. Luke 5:28 says he forsook everything. Why does Luke tell us that interesting fact? Because if you were a fisherman and followed Jesus and it didn’t work out you could always go back to fishing. But once you walk away from a tax franchise, there is no turning back, someone else would have taken over your tax booth and there would be nothing to go back to. So when Luke says he forsook all, he meant it. There was no return. Levi abandons everything which had been everything. That is the kind of man ...

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US must investigate Biden’s autopen decisions To the Editor: Throughout President Biden’s four-year term, many people noticed his serious cognitive decline. The real question is whether he actually made all of the executive decisions that were attributed to him. Of course, Biden’s staff denied Biden’s mental acuity problem. Their strategy was to hide the truth coupled with concerted steps to prevent the public from observing reality. It seems to me as Biden was losing control of himself throughout his time in office, his executive actions, especially pardons, cannot all be ...

A duck of a good prank

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Christopher Beers and his cohorts from Grandpa’s Joe’s were out and about before the quack of dawn a few weeks back to pull off a caper unlike any other in Canonsburg. Angling to ruffle a few feathers, the candy shop owner and his team, under the cover of darkness, secretly planted 2,000 ...

One shot and many memories

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Last weekend, while hiking in the woods, I was surprised to realize that hunting season now includes Sundays. I was ill-prepared: tromping through the trees in a brown sweater, my dogs bounding about with no safety gear. It had been a long time since I’d been in the woods as a hunter, and somehow, I’d missed the memo. That realization sent me down memory lane to my short and fearless stint as a hunter. The “fearless” part is said entirely tongue-in-cheek. What I did have was time with my dad, uncles, and cousins, and those hours were worth more than any trophy. Hunting season ...