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Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane
I learned about Tony Bender’s Nov. 24 death through a friend’s late-afternoon text. It was a Monday — deadline day — and I was too burrowed in my work to notice any happenings beyond my own nose. I finished up just in time to have dinner with my son before hearing Pulitzer-prize-winning writer Louise Erdrich…
Continue Reading Living Faith: The deaths of two local men brings reflection
Pope Francis recently invited Catholics and all people of good will to step into hope, announcing 2025 as a Jubilee Year, borrowing these words from the great evangelist St. Paul: “Hope does not disappoint.” Jubilee…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Jubilee year prompts reflection on injustices
FARGO— It was Feb. 11, 1957, and the town of Hankinson, North Dakota, was abuzz with the news. Twin girls from Lidgerwood had been born there, 10 weeks early, and weighed less than five pounds…
Next week, my “Matters of Soul Importance” podcast, which launched here on Jan. 5, 2024, turns 1 year old. Reviewing this last year of rounding up guests, plotting scripts, recording either “in studio” or in…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Matters of Soul Importance podcast turns 1!
For 17 years now, I’ve been choosing a word at the end of the calendar year to provide a theme and aim for the new year. This year, my website went down in mid-December, and…
Roxane Salonen is pictured with her mother-in-law Bev this past Mother’s Day at a Fargo restaurant. Contributed / Roxane Salonen I’m writing this on Gaudete Sunday — the Sunday in Advent when our pastors wear…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Salonen: Rejoice! A tribute to the best mother-in-law
Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane