Thirty years ago, congregations representing various denominations in the Quad Cities came together to respond to social challenges resulting from …Read More
Category: Editorials
A compassionate choice
Compassion & Choices, a national organization that advocates for legalization of assisted suicide, has Iowa on its radar screen in …Read More
Vote, and thank God for democracy
In these few days before the presidential election, many of us wonder: How did we end up with two such …Read More
Preventing domestic violence
Our culture tends to blame the survivors of domestic violence and normalizes violence against women. Singers who denigrate women and …Read More
Accompanying families with adopted children
U.S. Census Bureau records show that 2.07 million adopted children under the age of 18 are living in households in …Read More
Breaking the cycle of poverty through literacy
To the Editor: More than 7 billion people live in the world, half of whom are women and girls. Shockingly, …Read More
Broadening our perspective
This year’s bitterly divisive presidential race has caused us to lose focus on the bigger picture: the need to foster …Read More