Looking ahead
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD [email protected] Regarding this Christmas season’s series regarding the birth of Christ as the Incarnation of God, I am humbled. I greatly appreciate the comments and observations from…
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God and man
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD If you’ve read my previous two columns (“Getting Into the Christmas Spirit” and “The Incarnation”) you are perhaps aware, I am not celebrating the birth of Jesus…
The incarnation
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD [email protected] For years, I thought of Christmas as the celebration of Christ Jesus’ birthday, but perhaps I’ve matured a bit in my understanding. Now, I try to…
Getting into the Christmas spirit
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD [email protected] A friend is getting into the Christmas spirit by not getting into the Christmas spirit. He will work Christmas Day, he will not participate in gift…
The Thanksgiving proclamation
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD The Thanksgiving Proclamation was first read publicly by Abraham Lincoln while the Civil War was raging and the nation uncertain of its outcome. The document is worth…
On Thankfullness
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD Thanksgiving was established as a National holiday by Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation on October 3, 1863—the middle of the Civil War. The holiday was to be observed…
The $3,800 SUV
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD A few months ago, a 78-year-old gentleman made a left-turn in front of me that resulted in a traffic accident. In short, he had minor injuries, I…
On to Thanksgiving
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD Halloween 2023 will soon be behind us, and I guess there are persons who will miss it. Maybe I was not paying attention, but it did not…
Spookathon
By LEON YOUNGBLOOD “In the ‘Close Encounters of the Weird Kind’ department, the traditional Halloween spooks don’t have much of a chance, this year,” old man Red said. “I mean,…