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Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane
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 I wasn’t able to address the issue until yesterday. It grieved me to think it might not be resolved in…
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
After health issues left Karli Moch unable to conceive and carry another child, she and her family turned to adoption and welcomed Simon to their family in 2020. WEST FARGO — On Christmas evening 2017,…
In choosing a theme for my “Matters of Soul Importance” podcast, I leaned on G.K. Chesterton, who responded to the admonition that we should never discuss religion or politics in polite company by saying those…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Should the faithful stay in, or out, of politics?
In 2016, Bishop John Folda blessed the second Real Presence Radio office, located in the Meadowlark building downtown. CASSELTON, N.D. — Though not provable, it also would be hard to argue that the Real Presence…
When I was a child, a green witch lived under my bed, holding me hostage until the light of day. These days, I find only dust bunnies and a plethora of half-bitten treasures our dog…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Spiritual warfare lurks beneath the surface
Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane