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How to help boys

It would be better for boys if society stopped expecting them to act like girls. A Texas mom recently shared a video of her son at his kindergarten graduation. The clip shows him squirming in his chair, playing with his hands and stretching over his seat. She captioned the video, "You're six and the ceremony enters minute 37." The footage went viral because the boy is cute and the situation is so relatable for parents. But for boys, moments like this are no laughing matter. Think about most modern early elementary classrooms. Many teachers want students to spend hours a day ...

Michigan’s house is on fire

The Detroit Regional Chamber President and CEO Sandy Baruah and Henry Ford’s President & CEO made this very clear at the Mackinac Policy Conference this past week. The also made it clear that in order to correct the course, we must first recognize that we have a problem and then work ...

Aging is inevitable, becoming weak is not

When Alpena was founded, strength wasn't a hobby. It was a necessity. Loggers cut the timber that built America. Fishermen worked the waters of Thunder Bay. Sailors navigated the dangers of Shipwreck Alley. Families rebuilt after devastating fires. Cement workers helped construct the ...

Artificial intelligence: A modern Tower of Babel?

On May 25, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence." This pastoral letter has been much anticipated by the Catholic Church, and immediate news headlines expressed intrigue that the pope addressed the moral dilemma of AI and compared it to the story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis. He also discussed Nehemiah, the cupbearer to Persian King Artaxerxes I during the 5th century B.C. In a detailed breakdown of the pope's central points in "Magnifica Humanitas," Our Sunday Visitor reporter Gina ...

The lost art of talking to one another

I have a degree in communication studies, and I say that not as a credential to lean on, but as a lens through which I can’t help but view the world. It shapes how I listen, how I respond, and how I observe the ways we connect, or increasingly, how we don’t. And lately, if I’m honest, ...

Noting, not urging

On Twitter, I noted that a lot of actual, practicing Christians, not people who call themselves Christians, will stop voting if both parties keep nominating moral cretins insisting that people of faith choose between the lesser of two evils. It is still a choice for evil. Christians are ...