The best would be Deborah Howell, my editor at the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minnesota. And when, during this Women’s History Month, I think of the contributions of great women, the first name that comes to mind for me is that of Howell.

We can’t contemplate an afterlife without wondering whose life we’re contemplating.

For Spokane barber Jefferson Workman, his Buddhist and barbering practices go hand-in-hand, shaping his business as a place where clients can go and face no judgment.

Rock-throwing is an international symbol of frustration and situational impotence.

Bill Perkins, founder of the Coeur d’Alene ministry Compass International, Inc., believes the “signs of the times” that precede Jesus’ second coming have never been more discernable.

The actual event of prayer is a mystery where one might say it involves the energies of the Holy Spirit of God, Who mystically connects man to one another and to God.