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There’s no ‘perfect’ tree

This is National Arbor Day. Really, it should be a recognized holiday – no school, no postal deliveries. The day has a pretty simple premise: planting trees in public spaces. ...

DATE: Apr 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Systemic sin, climate change and choice

Small churches, like other small groups, tend to be homogenous. Members most often look at the world through the same, or similar, lenses. For the most part they believe the same ...

DATE: Apr 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

On Earth Day, consider your role in planet’s health

Earth Day has focused on many things since its inception in 1970. When it began, there was very little concern on a political level about the perils of human impact on our plane...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Powerful solutions

How you can help prevent food poisoning

“From farm to plate, make food safe” was the theme of this year’s World Health Day. On Tuesday, the World Health Organization highlighted the importance of food safety. Because th...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Change your nature to gain control over want/sin

Human misery stands a good chance of lasting as long as the sun shines until people decide that their want no longer matters enough to control life. Hear these words from the Book...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits

Leave them alone: Helping baby wildlife can kill

By Maureen Keilty Living with Wildlife Advisory Board You see big eyes, a thin coat of shivering feathers, and your heart tells you, “Help me, I’ve been abandoned!” How...

DATE: Apr 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Early delights: Asparagus, garlic

With the (early) arrival of spring so comes the flowering shrubs and trees – forsythia, plums, apricots and crabapples – as well as the initial vegetable growth from asparagus and garlic. ...

DATE: Apr 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Rushing to a conclusion smothers seeds of New Life

Premature convergence. That was my take-away from a training I recently attended. While it is not a phrase I’d heard before, I recognized it immediately – in myself. Premature con...

DATE: Mar 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Some like it hot Soaking up the history at New Mexico’s Ojo Caliente springs

On frigid winter days with long winter nights, there’s nothing like a soak in a natural hot springs and one of the most historic in the Southwest is at Ojo Caliente, N.M. Pioneeri...

DATE: Feb 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

TABOR squeezing Colorado recovery

This might be the year for Colorado taxpayers to take a serious look at the TABOR (Taxpayers' Bill of Rights) Amendment that voters put into the state constitution in 1992. Along ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: View from the Boondocks

Christmas trees have uses after holidays

’Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the tree lot, many creatures were stirring and wondering, “What?” What to do with these trees that now have no home? Could we find them a place...

DATE: Jan 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Young farmers plant seeds for success

Way back when – perhaps the late 1990s – I wanted to be a farmer. I was close to getting mybachelor of science degree at Montana State University and was taking those “fluff” cla...