Yesterday (April 17) the normal activities of over a million people in Colorado were brought to a halt by the supposed threat of a potential “Columbine” atrocity near its twentieth anniversary. Media reports raised the panicked alarm that a young woman, who her friends said was obsessed with the history of the Columbine killers, had come from Florida to Colorado to act out her obsession. She had bought a pump-action shot gun and was possibly intent on doing harm at some high school in Colorado.  Supposedly, after she was tracked through Denver International Airport to a place where she was […]

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by Teri Ong  The Greeley Tribune published a “Faith” column by Jeff Cook on February 10, 2019, called “Tribalism is the true enemy.” In his column he asserted that “There are two virtues at the heart of America and both are central to the priorities of God.” Cook chose freedom and justice as the two cardinal virtues.   He explained his view that our American two-party system keeps the two virtues in balance like the wings of an airplane. He wrote that the Republican party extols freedom “in matters of taxation, education, religious beliefs and unrestrained markets.” They exemplify the “freedom” wing of […]

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by Teri Ong  Sunday, January 20, 2019 was a momentous day for our family. Our eleventh grandchild was born.  That same day in Washington D.C. a March for Life was being held, as it is every year, to mourn the atrocities committed under Roe v. Wade, and to encourage the rightful pursuit of Life. While pro-life people were marching to uphold innocent life, others were marching to support what they euphemistically call “the woman’s right to choose.”  That phrase fits G. K. Chesterton’s definition of an “evil euphemism.” An evil euphemism is essentially a lie. One of his examples is […]

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Steve and I were blessed to experience the unlikely fulfillment of a longstanding dream this summer. I say “dream” because it was too lofty to be a “bucket list” item that we set out to do sometime in our life; it was something that existed only in our wildest imaginations. We made a crossing of the North Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2! I have been in love with the sea and ships since my earliest ferry boat rides from my childhood home in Seattle to the Olympic Peninsula and the various islands in Puget Sound. Later, on a visit […]

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