Let’s Get Started – Mark 7:31-37We humans are strange, aren’t we? For example, a pastor was once looking through the old church records of a long-standing Norwegian congregation and found that at one time its membership had been listed as: “52 souls and 2 Swedes.”Why is it we feel the[Read More…]

Today is Wednesday, Sept. 11, the 255th day of 2024. There are 111 days left in the year.Today in history:On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed as 19 al-Qaida hijackers seized control of four jetliners, sending two of the planes into New York’s World Trade Center, one into[Read More…]

Thursday, April 27, 1972 Visiting in the Sam Mickey home last weekend were Mrs. Mickey’s sister and brother-n-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Fatherly, and friends from Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Mulcher, whom the Mickeys had not seen for 24 years. The Mickeys and their guests all had dinner Monday[Read More…]

Seasonal changes always seem to stir thoughtful moments for me about what has past, the present moment that surrounds me, and what the future may hold. The Labor Day Parade and festivities, which also marked the seasonal change for me, were fabulous and fun. Now I am harvesting, starting to[Read More…]

Wash Your Hands?(Mark 7:1-23)I’m willing to give the Pharisees and Scribes a little slack on why they originally wanted to be so rigid about preserving the outward signs of faith with those little physical acts that kept the people of Israel connected to one another – and to God –[Read More…]

We have the fortune of having two interns right now. Ava Adams, is now a sophomore at IVHS and I hope to keep her until she heads off to school in three years through the fund for Oregon Rural Journalism (FORJ). Adams has had access to journalism training that one[Read More…]

Monique Allen (left) supports Tuff Truck driver No. 34 Samantha Conrad with a painting on her arm. KXCJ Community Radio manager Phillip Allison and IVCanDo’s Director Lindsey B. Jones did the announcing at Tuff Trucks. The winners are listed on A-11 along with more photos.(Photos by Laura Mancuso for the[Read More…]

Board of Josephine County Commissioners Chair John West recused himself and left the room at the very beginning of the board’s Aug. 28 weekly business session at the Anne G. Basker Auditorium in Grants Pass, but after he returned he became a focal point of the meeting. As an effort[Read More…]