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By Sebastian Santos and Tom Hastings
With the holiday season winding to a close and the world moving forward into another new year, it may be the perfect time to reflect on our way of buying and using goods.
The majority of the world’s economy is based on the concept of consumerism. On the surface, this does not seem to be a bad thing, as we need to consume goods and services in order to liv...
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• Well, it looks like the bottom line is getting in the way of the COVID virus or maybe it’s the...
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Every child deserves to have a loving home, a family that cares for them and the confidence that the...
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The questions of faith and values are ubiquitous, especially during the holiday season. Especially troubling is the fraught intersection of organized religion, mainstream and social media, politics and the classroom.
For example, the words of my hero, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are regularly twisted to advocate positions antithetical to the spiritual guidance he offers. They use his dr...
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There are two popular stories making the rounds about the nature of our species. One is fiction; one is non-fiction. One comes from 1951; the other from 1966.
The 1951 story is about a handful of well-educated British boys who, surviving a plane crash, end up on a small, uninhabited Pacific island. With no adult supervision, they made their own rules. Months later, when a British officer discov...
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By Dr. Glenn Mollette
A young adult woman in Johnson County, Ky., was recently faithfully working her convenient store register job. She had a line of patrons buying drinks and paying for gasoline. Someone asked her how much money she made? “Nine dollars an hour,” she said. “I’ve worked here over two years, and the pay has been $9 an hour. I’ve asked for a raise. I work hard. I’m here...
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By Tyler Smith and Russ Hessler
Four months ago, we walked into an empty warehouse in southern Johnson County, Ind. Down the road, thousands of Afghans were streaming into Camp Atterbury after a terrifying and traumatic escape from their country. For years, many of them worked alongside the U.S. military and/or government officials, doing what they could to help to stabilize their country.
Now...
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With a $1 trillion infrastructure package on the books and the Biden administration’s $1.8 trillio...
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“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small t...
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Recently, myself and some of my fellow department of agriculture staff decided to spend a few hours volunteering at two Indiana food banks. If you don’t know, our department is incredibly blessed by the Indiana Legislature and by the support of Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch to funnel funding for our Indiana food banks through our department.
In 2021, the Indiana Legislature designated $1 million in s...
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By Dr. Tom H. Hastings
Come on, Senators. First you haggle endlessly over a “human infrastructure” bill (Build Back Better Act) that would fund actual needs of real people; too expensive, not enough money for those “Democrats’ wish list” items. Even Joe Manchin joined Republicans in that complaint.
Then, you haggle over increasing the national debt limit but miraculously carve out an...
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