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Letter: Total war doesn't discriminate
In 1968, Daniel Berrigan and Howard Zinn went to North Vietnam to retrieve three downed American pilots released as a peace gesture to celebrate the traditional Tet New Year holiday. In Night Flight to Hanoi, Berrigan, astounded that American bombs were falling right where his government knew he and Zinn would be, speaks about total war. "Not only the enemy is ground under, but regard for those who might be considered 'our own' is nearly obliterated ...
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Letter: Nukes shouldn't be spending priority
First the good news! Nihon Hidankyo, the main organization of survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for "its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again." This group's work was crucial in the adoption of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the award comes at a time when the threat of the use of nuclear weapons is as high as it has ever been.
Letter: Gunshefski values people over politics
Linda Gunshefski was my eye doctor for over 20 years. She always exhibited professional integrity and commitment to excellence. She was informed, scrupulous and friendly. These are some of the qualities she will bring to public service as our state representative. Linda has a deep sense of community and values shared leadership and people over politics.
Teen Tech Center will help 'unlock what might be possible'
On May 14, The Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota celebrates its 50th anniversary. The occasion will highlight the astonishing fact that our Boys & Girls Clubs, with its 18 locations, is in the top 100 of the more than 1,300 organizations across the country for average daily participation (disclosure: My wife is on the board of directors). The St. Cloud area is a great place to be a young person! An event on Apr.
Patrick Henry: 'Getting appropriately upset' Original
“Life is about getting appropriately upset.” On March 10 I heard these words spoken from GREAT Theatre’s Helgeson Learning Lab stage by Kristin Stang, customer services administrator at Mastey Financial Group, playing Henrietta Leavitt in Lauren Gunderson’s drama, “Silent Sky.” Who Leavitt was, where and when, what she was doing, and why she was “appropriately upset” — these I will come to. Just three days before, however, I had heard another woman speak, clearly upset but inappropriately so.
Patrick Henry: Creating a Region of Compassion Original
“I believe that at every level of society — familial, tribal, national and international — the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion.” These words of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama are backed up by his lifetime of commitment to the welfare of others and by the Nobel Peace Prize.
Patrick Henry: Kids are our future and our present Original
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group “It’s 30 years ahead of what America’s going to look like.” Along with 780 other residents of this region, I heard these words in River’s Edge Convention Center on Jan. 15 at the 12th annual MLK Community Celebration, sponsored by the City of St. Cloud and St. Cloud State University.
Patrick Henry: Literacy is an experience that is essential to strong communities Original
For a columnist whose theme is the renewal of human community, the year 2024 is daunting. In the next several months I will be marshaling words to do what they can – not a lot, to be sure, but not nothing, either – both to forestall the dismantling of community we have and, in face of dire threats, to invigorate its revitalization.
The 24th annual Celebrate Christmas Tree Festival kicks off at the Delphos Canal Commission Museum
DELPHOS, OH (WLIO) - It's the most wonderful time of the year and residents in Delphos are feeling the Christmas spirit. The Delphos Canal Commission Museum is kicking off its 24th annual "Celebrate Christmas Tree Festival". The museum is filled with Christmas trees all of different sizes, shapes, and colors.
Buccaneers lament missed red zone chances that thwarted comeback bid vs. 49ers
CLOSINGS & DELAYS Previous B.J. Mack hit four 3-pointers and scored 27 points — 21 in the second half — to … Next Up The The CEO of the Las Vegas Grand Prix was thrilled with Formula One’s first ra… SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — On a day when the Tampa Bay defense got picked apart by Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers, the Buccaneers still found themselves with a chance to stage a fourth-quarter comeback.
Today in History: November 19, Abraham Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg cemetery dedication
Today in History Today is Sunday, Nov. 19, the 323rd day of 2023. There are 42 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. On this date: In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was born in Orange Township, Ohio.
EPIC is a community collaboration that offers hands-on experiences.
In her poem, “The Summer Day,” Mary Oliver asks: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” The question for many of us gets asked periodically during a lifetime – there are many “whats” we plan to do – but it’s one with special force when you’re in high school. On Oct. 27, EPIC — Exploring Potential Interests and Careers — happened for 4,500 students from 29 Central Minnesota school districts.
Our responsibility for making an America of which we can be proud Original
I am EXTREMELY proud to be American. I thought this while reading Times Writers Group columnist Gerry Feld’s “I’m proud of America, and you should be too” (Sept. 10). He begins, “I find it incredibly hard to believe how many people are no longer proud of America.” Feld cites recent Gallup polling statistics that say 38 percent of Americans are EXTREMELY proud to be American, 27 percent VERY, 22 percent MODERATELY, 9 percent a LITTLE, 4 percent NOT.
Students equipped in developmental skills, supports report higher grades. Original
Student success. Everybody wants it. But … what is it, what fosters it, how do you measure it? Alas, giving tests and reporting scores. This has the allure of concreteness. Scores on tests are “facts” that exert a gravitational pull on public attention. And they distract from what really matters. On Aug. 15 I learned a lot from someone who is as well-equipped as anyone alive to talk about what really matters.
We have problem solvers — and world champions— in our midst
“So many people aren’t aware of it. Yet, half the people I know have received a creepy text message from a random person.” Such is the world today’s young people are living in, as portrayed starkly by Shyla Gordon, who has just finished eighth grade at North Junior High School. “I wouldn’t want anyone to go through that experience, which is why I wanted to talk about it,” says Fatuma Hassan, who has just completed her junior year at Apollo High School.
Finally, will we have action on climate change?
Patrick Henry, Times Writers Group Not so long ago the word in Washington, especially among conservatives, was, “Don’t say climate!” At the June meeting of the St. Cloud chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby we heard things have changed.
Anna Marie's deserves our support in its quest to continue providing shelter from abuse
“Building hope, Coming home.” Both of these life-affirming and community-confirming projects were on full display May 25 when Anna Marie’s Alliance launched the final public phase of its ambitious and timely capital campaign (Disclosure: I’m on the campaign steering committee.) For more than four decades Anna Marie’s has been a shelter from domestic abuse and a launching pad for hope, providing a place where women and their children can learn what home without violence can be.
Solutions journalism could be the path forward for local news organizations
Patrick Henry, Times Writers Group Newspapers print obituaries. While everything else is in flux these days, people still routinely die, and the public wants to know. Friends tell me the obits are always the first thing they go to. What is new is obituaries for newspapers themselves. Almost daily we hear of some publication that has gone from ER to ICU, and too often their next stop is the morgue. The Times is hanging on, though without any local staff.
With Marshall Plan outline, St. Cloud area can play a role in supporting Ukraine
Last month I attended (virtually) a panel discussion on “A Marshall Plan Blueprint for Ukraine.” This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1948 European Recovery Program, known as the Marshall Plan because it was initially proposed the year before by Secretary of State George C. Marshall. That initiative, passed overwhelmingly by a Republican majority House and Senate, and signed by Democratic president Harry S.
Tell your legislators it's time to change the state flag
Flags matter. We pledge allegiance to “the flag of the United States of America.” The meaning isn’t fixed. To the nostalgic, the flag stands for a past that is white, Christian, with men and women in traditional defined roles. To the hopeful, the flag points to the more perfect union that we still have a long way to go to reach. We don’t pledge allegiance to the Minnesota state flag. Nonetheless, it isn’t just decoration.
Future planning for Waite Park is working
Patrick Henry, Times Writers Group Last April I told of an upcoming project called “Future Search” that would pose this question: “What is your vision for Waite Park in 2043, when the city will celebrate its sesquicentennial?” “To find common ground,” I wrote, “that is, a centerpoint we as a community can all support and act on – it is essential to dig deep, to bring a wide spectrum of stakeholders together to learn from each other, inspire each other, provoke each other.
Amy Grant a deserving, if not expected, recipient of recent honors Original
Patrick Henry, Times Writers Group Many of my 2022 columns were about the Christian nationalism threat. The danger persists, even though in November many of its candidates went down to defeat. I’m glad to ring in 2023 with something positive, a narrative of two events, 28 years apart, that demonstrates a meaning of “Christian” very different from the all-too-frequent story of head-on culture-clash conveyed by strident voices that the media notices.
Progress at Great River Children's Museum has been inspiring
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group Political dust has settled. Now we can see things that have been happening, unnoticed but notable. Almost four years ago my column celebrated the Great River Children’s Museum. The context was set by two national columnists ferreting out hope in the midst of our national dysfunctions.
Saints and Sinners in “Almost Deadly, Almost Good”
In her new collection of short stories, Almost Deadly, Almost Good: Sins and Virtues, Alice Kaltman crafts a wicked and ribald catechism from the vices and redemptions of contemporary America and its litany of temptations.
Interviews Archives - Collegeville Institute
You are here: Home / Archives for Bearings / Interviews "The question Dorothy asked of herself and her readers in 1933 remains the same one I have: what are people of faith to do in such a moment in history?" Patrick Henry interviews Sister Dolores Schuh, truly a "Collegeville Great," as she prepares to turn 90. Taylor Brorby talks about toxic masculinity, activism, North Dakota, and his experience with a Reconciling in Christ church within the ELCA.
What counts as better off?
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group Things are weird. Not unprecedented, but uncommonly intense. There’s the Big Lie (and the Big Liar, still at it, no respite), and hardly a ripple of rebuttal — with the noble exception of Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger. Violent rhetoric unleashes political violence (“Where’s Nancy?”). Voter suppression, intimidation.
Equity, diversity and inclusion are what the nation and our schools need a lot more of
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group More than 2,400 years ago, Socrates got people thinking about education with his ironic "I know nothing" ― which is not at all the same as “I don’t know anything.” Socrates gathered the curious, the skeptical, the doctrinaire, the bombastic, the reticent, the know-it-alls, the bewildered, you name it, and engaged them in conversation ― listening, probing, clarifying, revising, forestalling premature closure.
We’re all in it together. Democracy, not theocracy: Henry
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group Christian Nationalist authoritarians – incumbents and candidates around the country and in Minnesota for school boards, legislatures, secretaries of state, governors, Congress – have weaponized religious language.
Patrick Henry Warns of a “Great and Mighty Empire”
On June 5, 1788, Patrick Henry gave a speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention warning that “consolidation” – centralizing of power – would turn the United States into a dangerous empire. The speech was prophetic, and if you didn’t know otherwise, you’d assume it was spoken by some modern political analyst. The convention ran from June 2-22. Participants included James Madison, Edmund Randolph, John Marshall and George Mason.
This Tuesday matters a lot, especially for voters in St. Cloud Area School District 742
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group Primary? Yawn. “It’s summer. No time for something I don’t know anything about, and it probably doesn’t much matter anyway.” Away with excuses. This coming Tuesday it matters a lot, especially for voters in St. Cloud Area School District 742. And the pretext that “I can’t find out about it” is lame. St. Cloud resident Kevin Carpenter’s July 28 Your Turn, “Your next chance to vote is Aug. 9.
Refuting Rod Dreher, author Patrick Henry offers 'Benedictine Options,' plural
Benedictine Options: Learning to Live from the Sons and Daughters of Saints Benedict and Scholastica 176 pages; Liturgical Press $19.95 Someone had to do it: refute the underlying premise of Rod Dreher's 2017 The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation.
Hospitality, Mercy, and Service
Sister Dolores Schuh, CHM (Congregation of the Humility of Mary), who celebrates her 90th birthday on September 23, was an integral part of the Collegeville Institute’s life for thirty-one years (1970-71, 1974-2004), more than half its history so far. She is here interviewed by Patrick Henry (www.IronicChristian.org), who was executive director 1984-2004, and before that, a Resident Scholar (twice) on sabbatical from Swarthmore College. How did you get connected to the Collegeville Institute?
Voters need to press GOP candidates on whether they stand with Trump or truth
Patrick Henry Times columnist “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” by Robert Fulghum, published 36 years ago, came to mind as I heard/watched conservative Republican speaker of the Arizona House Russell “Rusty” Bowers on June 21 say to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol: “I did not want to be a winner by cheating.” We have come to where a public official’s attesting to something learned in kindergarten can be hailed as a...
No political party can lay claim to moral order
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group Buffalo. Uvalde. The logic of replacement theory and Second Amendment extremism leads to genocide and child sacrifice. These are dark times for America – horrifying, embarrassing, humiliating. A recent questionnaire asked: “Are you depressed? None of the time? Some? All?” Depression isn’t my thing. But now? “All of the time. How otherwise?” And yet.
Beware gift card scams, from one who is sadder (and poorer) but wiser
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group 1. Computer screen flashes, strobe-like. Looks as if it comes from Microsoft (logo seems legit). “Warning: you mustn’t log out or turn off.” That’s exactly what I should do, but don’t. 2. I call suggested number. A woman answers, claims to be Microsoft, remotes my computer, runs some programs. “A Trojan virus in your bank accounts.” “I will connect you to your bank on a secure line,” she says, “because your phone may be compromised.” 3.
Waite Park is enlisting its stakeholders to build its future
“So. You’re from Waite Park. Where’s that? What’s it like?” I suspect that many – maybe most – of the 8,000 residents of my city have been asked this at least once.
Benedictines live an example of how to govern through diversity
Religion – Christianity in particular – matters to me. I’ve studied it, taught it, written about it, puzzled over it, believed it, doubted it, and, with varying degrees of intensity and success, lived it. Because Christianity matters to me, a recent story got my attention, and not in a happy fashion. Vladimir Putin justifies his war in many ways.
Our lives will be remembered - if we care for our stories Original
On Oct. 28 St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis presided over a communication with the future. According to the St. Cloud Times, he “dedicated a time capsule chronicling St. Cloud residents’ lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.” The story continues.
Can St. Cloud area be net zero on carbon by 2038?
Patrick Henry Times Writers Group My friend Lee Morgan, who lives in Annandale, attended November’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. At December’s monthly meeting of the Central Minnesota chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby he reported on what he saw, heard and learned. There were 25,000 people gathered at the summit, so lots went on. Lee confirmed what we suspected: Progress was made, but far short of what’s needed. Reams of talking the talk, minimal walking the walk.
Can St. Cloud area be net zero on carbon by 2038?
My friend Lee Morgan, who lives in Annandale, attended November’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. At December’s monthly meeting of the Central Minnesota chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby he reported on what he saw, heard and learned. There were 25,000 people gathered at the summit, so lots went on. Lee confirmed what we suspected: Progress was made, but far short of what’s needed. Reams of talking the talk, minimal walking the walk.
The choice to remain unvaccinated for COVID lets doctors, nurses down
Imagine a historian in 2121 researching life in St. Cloud a century earlier. She picks up the Nov. 21, 202,1 St. Cloud Times, with its front-page headline, “A System Strained: ER physician details fatigue, long waits, lack of beds in COVID-19 surge,” and an accompanying story, “11 Central Minnesotans are among COVID-19 dead last week as toll passes 9,150.” The historian will, of course, have read widely in order to provide context.
New data shows how much we have to learn and do for an equitable community
“Just the facts, ma’am!” These words instantly take those of us of a certain age back to “Dragnet” and its protagonist, Sgt. Joe Friday. These days “the facts” are themselves too often contested. But facts still matter, and we have a new source of them: the Greater St. Cloud Equity Dashboard, released last week. The dashboard is an initiative of the Morgan Family Foundation, produced by Minnesota Compass, a project of Wilder Research.
Why building greener is crucial to meeting Paris climate targets
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and construction is vital to limiting global warming. Emissions dipped during the pandemic but will rebound as economies recover. Governments and companies around the world must step up efforts to make building and construction greener, according to a new UN report. “Green-building” is more than just a good idea.
Rutgers professor praises reports of low birth rate of white people: "We need to take the motherf---ers out!"
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These are the jobs currently driving the economic recovery across Europe
Service industries such as hospitality and entertainment lead new hiring in Europe. Education and public administration added the fewest jobs in the second quarter. EU economic output is seen reaching pre-COVID levels earlier than expected. The European hospitality and entertainment industries are leading the return to work, as countries across the region continue their recovery from the COVID-19 economic slump.
Are you heating the cream?
Looking inward for solutions Photo by John Prefer on Unsplash My wife recently celebrated a milestone birthday, so to her delight, I booked a vacation in the Dominican Republic at an all-inclusive resort. My wife loves nothing more than laying on the beach all day in the sun, sipping on a cocktail.To her, the only thing better than laying on the beach sipping on a cocktail is laying on the beach with a personal valet bringing you cocktails.
It's time to focus on the dividends of solidarity instead of division
“All of us feel bias.” This greeted me in Atwood Memorial Center at St. Cloud State University on Sep. 12 at “The Bias Inside Us,” a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition. The verb was chosen carefully: feel. I don’t decide to be biased. I don’t think bias. “Bias is an automatic firing in our brain. … Sometimes, bias feels like a whisper. Other times in comes through like a roar.” It happens so fast we aren’t even aware of it.
Vaccine mandates don't make your health care safer: Letter
St. Cloud Is your care safe? Before the novel coronavirus, many hospitals found themselves with painful staff shortages they struggled to relieve. When COVID hit, a couple of things occurred that affected regular staffing at St. Cloud Hospital as well as other hospitals across the nation. Many seasoned employees decided to retire or were offered a great retirement package they couldn’t pass up.
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