It was a rare occasion. We were flying to Utah for a weekend, and I had been included in the plans! Plans that had been in the making for months. In the next three days we were going to be very busy. My husband was scheduled to speak in Ogden the first night at an […]

Each year, in October and November, stationery counters offer napkins and paper plates depicting plump children and smiling parents in quaint hats and buckled shoes, preparing a lavish meal. In schoolrooms throughout the nation, teachers instruct pupils in the art of making cornucopias filled with yellow and red and orange construction paper fruits and vegetables. […]

The Equal Rights Amendment has attracted national attention in recent days. The Republican Party at its National Convention removed from its platform support for the ERA. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan made it clear that the GOP was not thereby removing its support for women’s rights, but was, in fact, promoting women’s rights by protecting women […]

We are all in agreement that there has to be a separation of church and state, but not a divorce between the two. What bothers us these days is to observe the way in which that concept has changed from “separateness” or “distinctiveness” to a situation which resembles the breakdown of a marriage. We notice […]

There has never been a time in world history when people in developed countries have been so carefully and well fed physically. Nutrition is a subject which fills pages of every homemaker’s magazine and captures the spotlight of many television ads. Careful studies and experiments have been conducted by experts in many professions and a […]

There was a time when grandpas and grandmas would point to the little red or white schoolhouses which dotted the countrysides of this great land and say, “That‘s where I learned my three R’s.” By “three R’s” they meant reading, (w)riting and (a)rithmetic. These three processes were considered to be the essential equipment to get […]

Image-Bearing When white light is passed through a transparent pr ism, the light is refracted into the many colors of the rainbow. It is an impressive demonstration of the beauty of God‘s design in creation. Similarly when the Light of the world, Jesus Christ, shines through the life of a spiritually dead man, the image […]

Image-Bearers When God made man He did not make him a robot, a mechanical man who could perform tasks. automatically at the push of a button. Nor did God make a wax figure with the appearance of flesh but void of mental or physical power. When God decided to make man, He said, “Let us […]

Bridges – Not Walls We have looked at a variety of ways in which parents can cause their children to harden their hearts against the Lord by their personal conduct: a divided home, making of demands we do not fulfill ourselves, playing favorites, belittling our children to or discussing their faults with others. But parents […]

Pottery–making is one of the oldest human crafts, one which has remained basically unchanged in procedure throughout the centuries. The potter takes soft clay which will yield to his molding and “throws” it on a wheel which he can turn by means of a foot pedal. Slowly and carefully he pushes here and presses there […]