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Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane
In my faith tradition, we excise the word “Alleluia” from our vocabulary during Lent. Why? Because it’s important to save the celebratory exclamations for the appropriate time so that we might more deeply enter those 40 days in the desert with Jesus, to face our human weakness and propensity to sin. Only when we acknowledge…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Where, O death, is your victory? Your sting?
Whenever the topic of abortion comes up in “Living Faith,” strong emotions in every direction follow. Most recently, the subject emerged from this letter to the editor and my response . The morning my column ran, I received an…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Abortion is a topic that taps roiling emotions
Writing publicly on controversial topics can evoke disagreement, so I was prepared to let the Feb. 26 letter to the editor by Hilary Ray dangle. But I’m concerned about the public being misled. It seems important to…
Continue Reading Living Faith: A response to Hilary Ray’s letter to the editor
https://pixabay.com/photos/woman-person-sunset-dreams-alone-491623/ For years, I’ve been watching women walking into and out of the abortion facility here in the Red River Valley. But despite this scene playing out hundreds of times in my experience, I’ve only…
Continue Reading Sidewalk Stories: Aloneness of abortion helps fuel this sad industry
A guitarist opens for Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan Peterson before his speech at Scheels Arena in Fargo Feb. 21. FARGO – An unknowing passerby to the Scheel’s Arena on Feb. 21 might have…
Continue Reading Faith Conversations: Attendees react to Jordan Peterson’s Fargo visit
Jim Jawaski shows off his recovering legs from his hospital bed at Sanford Medical Center in Fargo in the fall of 2023. BRECKENRIDGE, Minn. – One uneven turn and a life can change forever. James…
Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane