We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
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Several years ago, the Blaine County Library withdrew from circulation a thick book titled Gestures. I found this book on the cart in the library entryway. Never before having seen anything on this topic, I gave the librarian my 25 cents and took the book home. How could I guess what to expect? The book was a surprise in more ways than one. Four scholars from Oxford University in England had made a detailed, in fact, minute, scholarly study in a branch of anthropology seldom explored. Let me quote the first sentences of the Preface: “The i...
A few days ago, I found myself in the midst of a discussion about the widespread greed “nowadays.” One person said, “Everyone wants benefits but no one wants to work.” Much agreement with this lamentable observation followed. This was a casual moment, not an evening’s serious pooling of knowledge and sober appraisal of the current state of our national situation, so I didn’t jump in with facts or points of view to the contrary. Afterward I was thinking about the reality that, yes, we do hear of a few people who want to receive public fund...
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” We see and hear John 3:16 frequently at sports events, in songs and sometimes in regular conversation. Not everybody who hears John 3:16 knows what it is about, the words, or maybe even what it is. An important pastor down in Stanford, MT in a little beautiful church taught me that every scripture has different meaning to different people. It has it’s basis of what it means but from there the meani...
