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  In January, a lovely lady from the Congo, who now lives in our city, visited our church. Her visit gave me an opportunity to dust off my very dusty skills in speaking French. Working my way through what is left of my conversational vocabulary caused me to review in my mind some of the lessons I learned in French history back in the day. As a result of this exercise, I have been struck by some of the dangerous parallels between what happened in France about 200 years ago, and what is happening in our own society […]

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