Opinion
Cross Words: ‘X’ marks the spot
I don’t wear an eye patch. I don’t hold a hook. There’s no peg on my leg. But I’m a pirate. I search for treasure each and eve...
National School Breakfast Week
Every year, the School Nutrition Association, or SNA, sponsors National School Breakfast Week (NSBW) during the first full week in March. The NSBW the...
Youth coalition aims to make a difference
The Gallia County Youth Coalition is the youth contingent of Citizens for Prevention and Recovery. We have come together to speak out about our dissat...
Lowering the Cost of Prescription Drugs
The cost of prescription drugs is too high in this country. We have to crack down on big pharmaceutical corporations, and get these prices under contr...
A Hunger for More: Living in Faith
Days such as these have shaken a great many people to their core. It has proven to be an age in which faith in God is essential not only in the esoter...
Search the Scriptures: The privilege of prayer
Do we take prayer for granted?One suspects that a great many people do, simply assuming it’s something everyone does, having forgotten, or perha...
God’s Kids Korner: The Transfiguration
About eight days after Jesus tells His Disciples that He is going to be killed and be raised on the third day, He takes His closest companions Peter, ...
Abstract confessions are inadequate
What I am about to tell you actually happened. However, it will be rendered in a rather unique and abstract manner. The individual involved has given ...
Cross Words: Lessons from a Peruvian girl
She sat beside me on the airplane.“Hi,” she said.“How are you?” I asked.The conversation quickly ended. It was a long flight f...
When snow falls, there are no right answers
Welcome to winter in Miami County, that glorious time of year when schoolchildren become expert meteorologists and our school superintendents become e...
