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  • Finding Hope as Gas Prices Rise and Society Tanks

    Finding Hope as Gas Prices Rise and Society Tanks5

    I wince inwardly while sailing past the gas station on my way to work. The price has gone up since I last drove by it … yesterday. In fact, the price seems to go up about 10 cents a day lately. At that rate, by the end of summer it will be … no, I

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  • Finding Help and Hope Amidst Loneliness

    Finding Help and Hope Amidst Loneliness0

    The number of Americans receiving some sort of mental or emotional health treatment more than doubled from 2002 to 2024, rising from 27.2 million people to 60 million, a recent Statista article shows. Anxiety and depression are the most commonly cited reasons for seeking treatment. Experts credit this increase to the Covid lockdowns, less stigma attached to

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  • Finding Heaven in Hard Things

    Finding Heaven in Hard Things1

    “Is this heaven?” Shoeless Joe Jackson asks Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams. I’ve always loved that line. Growing up on an Iowa farm, we had our own ball field behind our house. My dad built a backstop for my brothers and me long before Kevin Costner ever heard “The Voice.” On summer evenings, Dad would

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  • Finding Freedom in a World of Chains

    Finding Freedom in a World of Chains1

    Chain, chain, chain (Chain, chain, chain) Chain of fools So ran the chorus to Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit song “Chain of Fools.” One hundred twenty years earlier, the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels proclaimed: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” The chains of Franklin’s song

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  • Finding Freedom From Fear In Anxious Times

    Finding Freedom From Fear In Anxious Times0

    Fear. Nervousness. Anxiety. If you are lucky enough to avoid these feelings dominating your person right now and turning a few more hairs gray, then you can likely still smell them in the air and see them in the actions of those around you. It doesn’t matter which political party people align themselves with. Liberals’

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  • Finding COVID-19’s True Fatality Rate

    Finding COVID-19’s True Fatality Rate0

    Early reports from January painted a grim picture about just how deadly the coronavirus was. Initially, the World Health Organization estimated that the percentage of infected individuals who die from COVID-19 was 3.4 percent. That statistic is called the infection fatality rate (IFR) – or colloquially, the death rate – and means that for every

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