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The View from Mudsock Heights: Woodsmoke

By Dennis E. Powell | Nov 13, 2008 at 0:10:55

This week, OFB is pleased to welcome Dennis E. Powell as a regular contributor with his column, “the View from Mudsock Heights.” Everything must start somewhere. For Dennis, it starts with a woodstove.

Acting Well: Reflections on the Life of Katharine Hepburn

By Jason Kettinger | Nov 9, 2008 at 16:35:34

Even to the present day, I remain woefully ignorant of the catalog of an American acting legend – Katharine Hepburn. Despite that, based upon two films, 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? and 1981’s On Golden Pond, I had decided that she was the best actress I’ve seen.

Was Starbucks Buying Voters?

By Timothy R. Butler | Nov 4, 2008 at 16:37:28

We as a country have messed up priorities. For weeks, there have been discussions of massive voter registration fraud and fears of actual voter fraud on Election Day. The board of elections in the state of Washington finally kicked into gear – against Starbucks.

On A Roll: About the Alaska Panhandle

By Leonard Durrenberger | Sep 6, 2008 at 22:55:22

Alaska has been a subject of national interest in recent days. Years ago I lived there and I recently found myself musing on some of the unique aspects of that mysterious state the nation is now so inquisitive about.

Children Need a “Green Hour” Outside Every Day

By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 12, 2008 at 23:17:14

Mounting scientific evidence indicates that the long-term health of U.S. children depends on them spending less time in front of video screens and more time outdoors. There is no better time to for children to experience the world outside than summer.

Friendly Skies Require a Spirit of Cooperation

By Sandi Dolbee | Jun 9, 2008 at 20:41:6

Long lines, crowded planes. Fasten your seat belts, the summer travel season has begun. To help keep the skies as friendly as possible, we asked travel writers Sandra Gustafson and Pat O’Connor to offer some ethics advice for would-be passengers. We provided the scenarios; they offered the tips on proper conduct.

She Entices

By 2 | Mar 3, 2008 at 0:26:29

She appears on the screen. The hormones take over, and you can’t avert your gaze. You stare. Something you see feeds a hunger inside, and you devour this vision, even as you know you are making a fool of yourself. For hours, even days after, you can’t shake the feeling. Then, some photographer catches her in real life, without the perfect lighting, without the make up and carefully set tresses, etc. Okay, she’s still cute, but hardly the vision of loveliness you thought you first saw. You feel cheated, made a fool of, and you wonder how she managed to capture your attention in the first place.

The Grammar Curmudgeon

By Ed Hurst | Feb 9, 2008 at 23:0:48

For professional writers (and those who aspire to be), their language of publication is their best tool. I’m not a Luddite when it comes the development of language. The point is, English is my very favorite ministry tool, and I am passionate about keeping it in usable shape. For example, we can accept the use of “twofer” as a rarely used colloquial term. Such playful terms do have a place along side the usual “Net-speak.”

The Sorrows of Modern Education

By Ed Hurst | Jan 25, 2008 at 14:49:34

In a recently published piece, Linda Taylor addresses a favorite hate of mine, group learning. First, let’s establish that a great many things we learn can and should be done in a peer group setting. That is generally limited to non-intellectual learning, such as sports, vocational training, etc. It is the worst possible setting for individual advancement intellectually.

Clicking Off Interaction

By Timothy R. Butler | Aug 3, 2007 at 14:17:45

There are a number of areas where, if someone heard me speak about this or that topic out of context, they might think me to be a Luddite rather than the gadget-loving fellow that I am. One of those areas is the PowerPoint presentation, an infernal invention by my estimation – a view I will explain, if you will just follow my presentation points.

The Danger of Peacemaker

By Timothy R. Butler

Here is a story. The leaders of a church have a personal agenda against someone and want to quiet him, exact revenge or what have you. They not only come at him within their church, they continue by following him outside of that church to any other church he seeks refuge at and any place he works, making a wreck of his life in the process. That is the sort of thing that only happened in the past, in dusty tales of witch-hunts in Salem or the Inquisition in Spain, right? Wrong: it is happening today, perhaps at a seemingly normal church near you.

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