Opinions

Over the past few weeks, we have considered the evidence supporting the concept that at one time in the ancient past, all of humanity was gathered together as one people of one race and culture, speaking one language.

You have probably been told a few times in your life to not let anyone take away your own peace. That you responsible if you are filled to the brim with good will toward all mankind - or had your fill of all mankind. “Your happiness is in your hands, and it depends upon your own reactions to events.

Christian speakers who use scattered Bible verses to form sermons need to be careful. Wherever each verse is taken from, the speaker needs to read enough in that particular book of the Bible about what was occurring and to whom it was written about.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2025 DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are blessed with a 6-month-old son, “Tyler.” I’m now back at work three days a week. My mother and my motherin- law offered to watch him one day a week, which we were grateful for. (I found a babysitter for the third day.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I was married for 20 years to a man who slowly isolated me from friends and family until I had no one but him to rely on. Now 49 and divorced, I am without close friends. For the last two years, I’ve been actively trying to build connections.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I’ve been happily married for 31 years. I love my wife, but we are now more like roommates or friends than the lovers we were initially. We are also not soulmates. We both agree that few couples are. But I MET my soulmate three years ago.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I have been incarcerated for 21 months. I stay in contact with my immediate family, except for my brother. I suspect that he slept with my girlfriend a couple of weeks before I came to prison, although I’m not 100% sure.

Opponents of Oklahoma’s school choice program claim it primarily benefits “the rich” because, in effect, the joint income of a working mom and dad with children is greater than the income of a young, single person with no children.

Jeannie slipped silently down the dark, cellar steps like a shadow on a mission. Certainly not a shadow, but definitely on a mission. She knew exactly where her grandmother kept her pickle-making crock.

Years ago a former pastor of the Church of God taught Bible History classes at SSC (his name escapes me).