
Ending the homelessness cycle
Homelessness can assume many faces. Some people live on the street due to serious mental illness, substance misuse, HIV, and other chronic health conditions. Others survive domestic abuse or military

Fighting the war online
Ohio ranks fifth in the country for human trafficking, according to statistics from the National Human Trafficking Hotline. The evil continues during COVID-19 as traffickers have turned to the web

Tebow Hangs them Up
Tim Tebow, the former NFL quarterback who tried his hand at baseball the past five years, announced this week that he is retiring. A born-again Christian, Tebow appeared in the

Living the diversity model
Lt. Colonel Raphael Jackson seems the perfect choice to be the Eastern Territory’s first racial diversity and inclusion secretary, an appointment he began earlier this year. “I live it,” Jackson

Remembering Patricia Rooney
Today is Super Bowl Sunday, the NFL’s biggest day, but this year the league is also mourning the passing of Patricia Rooney, the wife of late Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan

It’s Christmastime in the village
Major Jeff Stacy is a pastor, so it’s fitting that the first purchase he ever made for his massive Christmas village display was a beautiful church with a high steeple.

The gift of reading for Christmas
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”—Frederick Douglass The way Joe Bedard tells it, he was in the woods several years ago when a vision

Answering the alarm—together
Updated December 20, 2020. The lines were so long for the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree distribution in Lexington, Ky., on Friday, December 18, that city police jumped in to help

Mastering the sugar arts
Becki Dina, a Salvation Army soldier and owner and decorator of Sugar Arts Bakehouse in Shaker Heights, Ohio, took on a hobby that became a job, which then became a

The joy of Christmas comes home
Maria Sanchez sat her four children down and gave them the bad news; their family couldn’t afford any Christmas decorations for their home this year—not even a tree. “The situation

Equipping the called
The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go; I will help you

Gifts Under the Tree
Amanda Strandburg knows what it’s like to see Christmas approaching, but have nothing under the tree. You might say “The Ghost of Christmas Past” visited her every holiday season. Today,