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Editorials and columns

Communication differences are solved with common solutions

There are plenty of factors that cause people to communicate differently. Generational differences are the most common one that we blame for ineffective communication but there are others. What is interesting, though, is that when you look at the solutions to interpersonal communication ...

Grief is love spelled differently

Love can raise us higher than we ever imagined. It can sneak in and give us a warm hug at just the right moment. Whether it’s love of a partner, family member, or friend, the deep emotional attachment that accompanies love fills us up and holds us together. But love can also plunge us deep ...

Eileen Gu’s terrible choice

It isn't easy being Eileen Gu. The champion freestyle skier said the other day, after she had to settle for a silver medal in an event at the Olympics, that "sometimes it feels like I'm carrying the weight of two countries on my shoulders." Gu would be carrying the weight of only one ...

Trump stops race to save the creation

May we talk about spiritual matters? "In the beginning," the Bible opens, "God created the heavens and the earth." Several lines down, God says, let humankind "have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, ...

The MSU shooting anniversary

Three years ago,I learned that humans all have expiration dates and only God knows when we will expire. Three years ago, the day before Valentine’s Day, I experienced a mass shooting at Michigan State University (MSU) that forced me to appreciate the fragility of life, the human-condition of ...

Plant in your own life and we all reap the rewards

There's a 36-year-old song that talks about the value of hard work. "I gotta get out of bed and get a hammer and a nail," the chorus goes, "Learn how to use my hands, not just my head. I think myself into jail. Now, I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose. Gotta ...