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This Covid- 19 plague has really managed to overturn all expectations for 2020. When it first started, I had to take two Covid- 19 tests and neither experience was pleasant. That sleep study was a bust anyway. Who can sleep with a bunch of wires glued to him? Our church, Hope Lutheran Church in...

I hope and pray that you all had as wonderful a Christmas day as I did today. It was definitely a time for family and friends, reunions with relatives I hadn't seen in quite awhile and great food, drink and conversation. My church had its Christmas Eve service last night ( I had to work, so I...

Today is the feast day of my namesake, St. Andrew the Apostle ( who also happens to be the patron Saint of Scotland). Now, St. Andrew was Simon Peter's younger brother, who first told him that " they found the Messiah " ( John 1:41) and led his older brother to Jesus. St. Andrew was one of the...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5105765/Adelaide-Catholic-School-covers-brand-new-statue.html I just wanted to open this thread because I thought we could use a laugh after all the tension and bile over the last couple of weeks. For those who don't find this kind of thing funny, I...

It's Hallowe'en, so I suppose a quick family story regarding one of my deceased ancestors wouldn't be out of line, here. I am Andrew, son of Robert Gooding and son of Carol McDonald. Carol is the daughter of Boyd McDonald and Phyllis Cornett. Boyd McDonald was the son of Melva McDonald and...

Christopher Columbus ushered in a new era for Europeans as a result of his voyages to the Americas in the 1490s. This era, known today as the Age of Discovery, began with Columbus' voyages and closed in the eighteenth century. It brought about the Columbian Exchange...

When I was a kid, Columbus Day was regarded as a holiday for someone who heroically braved a vast, unknown sea to find a western passage to China and the Orient. Unbeknownst to him and the three ships he was leading ( Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria), when they first sighted land, it was land in a...