by Teri Ong Eric Brandt, self-described “ world-traveled Colorado native, a free thinker and a philosopher,” wrote an opinion column for the Thursday, August 13th Greeley Tribune, suggesting that Christians in our society are “forcing the hand” of politicians on certain policies most people would recognize as requiring moral decisions. He wrote, “I scarcely know a fundamental Christian who isn’t, in practice, intolerant.” The very next paragraph in his opinion piece states,”The Taliban is alive and well in the United States… They don’t call themselves the Taliban in America; they call themselves ‘right-wing Christians.’” That sounded a little intolerant of […]

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>By Teri Ong My connections to the state of Minnesota go way back. I lived there from September 1963 to December 1974. But before that, my grandmother and aunt lived in Duluth. They moved there in the 1950’s so my aunt, who had a Ph.D. in physical education and kinesiology, could teach at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. My Aunt Mary was a unique person. Besides having a doctoral degree (which was unusual for women in that era), she was into p.e. and fitness long before it was the “in” thing. When we would visit her house, we would eat and […]

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