Timothy O’Shea arrived at the Calumet mine location in December of 1865. By all accounts the area was a wilderness, except for the clearing in the woods around the site. Edwin J. Hulbert was a civil engineer and surveyor who had worked at the Cliff Mine for several years, where he became ...

Soteriology, or the doctrine of salvation, is interpreted differently in various religious traditions, but always includes deliverance of humankind from suffering and evil. It can be a state here on earth or in another realm, such as after death. In religious communities, a lot of their focus ...

A man’s heart and soul are found beyond the words of his obituary. Funeral directors do an incredible job of gathering the details of a deceased man’s life: dates of birth, death and marriage, places of employment and worship, and lists of surviving and deceased relatives. With the ...

It was Mohandas Gandhi who wrote that there is no religion without sacrifice. He saw the core of all religious belief as Truth. Truth is a universal ideal as well as the Truth of daily life. Sacrifice is the idea that we surrender something dear to us. Sacrifice is when we give away something ...

Part Nine: Out on the water This is one in a series of staff writer Graham Jaehnig’s personal experiences as a beginner kayaker. When talking about five basic paddle strokes, we already learned two of them. First, we talked about the Forward Stroke; the Reverse Stroke is done by simply ...

Part Eight: Recreational kayaking requires five basic strokes This is one in a series of staff writer Graham Jaehnig’s personal experiences as a beginner kayaker. There are many different types of kayaks for as many different types of ways to use them. For instance, there is ...