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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
At first, it didn't sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of dollars without anyone seeming to notice? Worse, it appears they didn't seem to care. Vice President JD Vance convened a meeting on Tuesday of his Task ...
I stood on the riverbank in Milltown, Indiana, with Allen Pursell of the Sam Shine Foundation. We watched young people fishing on either side of the low-head dam on Blue River. May 31 is National Dam Safety Awareness Day, and I wanted to learn why the Sam Shine Foundation was committed to dam ...