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Letter to the Editor: Write, defend faith

I see once again that a “Sermon of the Week” features a recycled one. Nothing generally wrong with that, but where are the Christian pastors of today? Are there none who could write a sermon to be published? It is a sad day that no sermon of the week is being sent in, but there seems to be ...

Letter to the Editor: Imposing beliefs on others

Just saw a story recently on TV news at noon with the local head of the Climate Activists. That person was concerned about whales with a stomach full of plastic and said it was TRAGIC. What about the intentional murder of unborn babies on a daily basis? Is that not TRAGIC? Yes, it is not good ...

Letter to the Editor: Guarantee benefits

Most people believe Social Security is a contract with the government — you pay in and you are paid back. The sad truth isn’t readily known. Back in 1960s, the left-leaning Supreme Court ruled in Flemming v. Nestor the government has no legal, contractual obligation to pay us our ...

Letter to the Editor: Being thankful

I’ve written before about my feeling of importance of family and friends. I’ve shared my fear of aging and thoughts about what COVID-19 did to our society. Many people told my husband and me how they liked reading about us when we were featured in the senior section of this newspaper a few ...

Letter to the Editor: ‘Race’ not the problem

Today we are continually bombarded with “race” as a wedge issue to divide people. For full disclosure, I am a fundamentalist Christian with a biblical worldview. I am a widower after 46 years of marriage to a Vietnamese lady. While stationed at Marshall University from 1973 to 1977, my ...

Letter to the Editor: The Bible and rainbows

I understand there has been some backlash for comments a local pastor made about “taking back the rainbow.” I do not know the man, but what he said is absolutely true. The rainbow was given by God as a sign that He would not destroy the Earth by water again, after what is called ...