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Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane
In the hours after the election, many of the disappointed responded with fits of rage and confusion. While I don’t have the power to reframe the narrative to convince the disheartened that we’re not heading for imminent destruction, we who’ve been biting our tongues for the past four years may have helpful perspective. Firstly, It’s going…
Continue Reading Living Faith: In election woes, ‘Incline the ear of the heart’
In childhood, I learned to ignore the elephant that frequently cowered in the corner of our house. But the more I dismissed it, the larger it seemed to grow, often spilling into every room until…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Holidays meant to be time for family unity
Jodi Huisentruit is pictured with Roxane Salonen’s mother-in-law, Bev Salonen, and sister-in-law Kelly (Salonen) Torguson some time in the summer of 1993 at the Mall of America. Recently, I shared with some of our children…
Continue Reading Living Faith: Where’s Jodi Huisentruit (and why care)?
Local girl’s voice debuts on popular prayer app Bob and Josie Noel of Moorhead had a bedtime routine of listening to the “Saints Alive” production on a prayer app called Hallow and Josie was recently…
Even as I write, roads are closing and I’ve had to surrender my travel plans. There are few signs of life on the white, cold ground, and certainly, no dandelions. Nevertheless, I’m calling on dandelions…
Continue Reading Sidewalk Stories: Could a humble dandelion help win the culture?
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…
Continue Reading Living Faith: The deaths of two local men brings reflection
Hello friend! Welcome to Peace Garden Passage. I pray your visit brings refreshment. Blessings & peace! Roxane