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Happy Earth Day! Editor: Many indigenous people of North America told a different creation story than the ones we learned in Genesis I and 2. Creator made all the plants and animals first and told them to take care of Little Brother, a vulnerable human who needed lots of help to survive. All went well for hundreds of thousands of years, and human societies did not destroy the planet. My ancestors descended from people who had developed a different culture, one based on the concepts of human dominance of nature and private property. Much of the land people occupied was divided and ...

Michael Barone

What's the big deal about Hungary? It's a central European country with 9.5 million people — slightly less in population and area than the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. But it's been the subject of more care, attention and debate in America than any other country in Europe or the Western ...

Clarence Page

It is hardly surprising that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's explicitly Christian monthly worship services in the Pentagon have raised alarm in some quarters about the separation of church and state. But who expected to find him quoting lines of alleged scripture that were lifted from ...

From the desk of Dr. J

President Donald Trump has received a lot of backlash for his recent posts on TruthSocial of himself as a "Christ-like" figure and his criticism of Pope Leo's views on the Iran war. Most people on social media are familiar with the often belligerent nature of Trump's posts, and, for the most ...

Georgia Garvey

Your memories will try to trick you. I thought about that as I was driving down a street near my house the other day, when I spotted a father walking down the sidewalk, his young daughter slung over his shoulder like a sack of coal he was hauling out of a mine. Her hair bounced along on his ...

Tim Graham

When "60 Minutes" lined up three American Catholic Cardinals who had been dropping angry "open letters" on President Donald Trump, CBS reporter Norah O'Donnell mustered the audacity to claim, "their candor surprised us." No, they knew precisely what they were orchestrating — another ...