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Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane
In the early hours of this year’s summer Olympics, the clash between secular and religious worldviews ignited. Even if you missed the games, you likely heard about the controversial opening scene that some have described as an ancient Greek orgy. Though past now, it’s worth reviewing. Was the tableau really a mockery of the Last…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Olympians paid tribute to God despite opening
Camille Harvey, Jane Beauclair and Roxane Salonen are seen in a hot-air balloon Aug. 31, 2024, Custer, South Dakota. My mom takes things literally, like laboring on Labor Day (my birthday), and, more recently, naming…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Hot-air balloon offers glorious summer’s end
Recently, an article, “Two years after move to Minnesota, Red River Women’s Clinic workers, protesters reflect on changes,” ran on the front page of The Forum. Challenges to some inaccuracies have been noted by others. As a…
Continue Reading Living Faith: My take of Aug. 10 abortion piece omissions
Since 2013, the A-Cross America Relay has taken its message, “Remember the Unborn,” across the United States annually. PAPILLION, Neb. — In his teenage years growing up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Patrick Castle began…
Continue Reading Faith Conversations: LIFE Runners leg to launch at cathedral Sept. 14
Greg Lardy, vice president for agricultural affairs at North Dakota State University, recently published “Come to Him in the Silence: Meditations for Life’s Journey,” which includes nature photos he’s taken over the years. WEST FARGO…
Continue Reading Faith Conversations: Ag admin ties nature to faith in new devotional
“Why are you going to Indianapolis? How could I explain to those who don’t believe that Jesus is truly present, body, blood, soul and divinity, in the Eucharist, that I was going there to see…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Jesus aches to be near us (What if it’s true?)
Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane