• God turns sow’s ears into silk purses

    By: Tom Jordan “Come see a man, which told me all things that ever I did; is not this the Christ?” (John 4:29).  “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”  Whoever coined that bit of philosophy must have meant it is almost impossible to make elegance out of the ordinary.  Of…

  • We’re Coming Back One Step at a Time

    By: Glenn Harbison In a social media post Friday, May 15, and in The News Observer of May 20, I wrote of my departure from the newspaper and its predecessors I have served for the past 48 years. Within those words I said, “So it’s time to say, “See ya later.”” Later has arrived. I…

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