This Wednesday, January 22, is the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in our country. Over the years a variety of organizations have sprung up to work to protect the unborn. My favorite pro-life organization is Lutherans for Life (LFL). The first thing that makes LFL exceptional is that it doesn’t get involved…
When I was a kid there was a man who knew how to do some very creative things with cow horns. The first step in the process was to use pieces of glass to scrape the horns to make them smooth. This pictures shows what he was able to do with the horns that I…
Originally posted on Minnesota Prairie Roots:
PICKING UP MINNESOTA WRITER Rachael Hanel’s We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down—Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter, I wonder how I can possibly relate to a book focused on death. But I can, in many ways. I am, like Hanel, a native southern Minnesotan. That is telling.…
Bird flu is a dangerous thing. According to Yahoo News, “China’s premier on Sunday (April 28, 2013) urged authorities to be vigilant against a new strain of bird flu that has killed 23 people, while saying that efforts to tackle the virus have so far been effective.” According to the CDC web site: “Usually, “avian…
The preacher in Ecclesiastes 1 says, “Vanity of vanities! all is vanity The poet Ogden Nash puts it this way The prophets chant and the prophets chatter But somehow it never seems to matter, For the world hangs on to its ancient sanity And orders another round of vanity.
An Ode to the English Plural We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of…
Let me illustrate how I see the importance of Christian doctrine. I have two children. One lives in a city a few hundred miles away and the other lives overseas. It occured to me that when I go to visit the child that lives a few hundred miles away I pack very differently than when I go to visit the child…
Myron Kunin, founder of the Regis Corporation, was known for his substantial collection of 20th-century American paintings. Here is a sampling of the paintings he has donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Mirror Neurons 