The right use of knowledge gets one through trials
By Brian Kenney Beardstown Fire & Police Chaplain Essential # 4: Believing (5) Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask… Login to continue reading Login…
Opinion
Was it a suitcase or a time capsule?
Time capsules are frozen excerpts of human history. One can probably say with certainty that any item from 2020 will make an amazing… Login to continue reading Login…
It was a train ride unlike any other
Kids and trains held a special place in Frank Trussell’s heart, and he brought the two together on Saturday, March 24, 1951. Trussell… Login to continue reading Login…
Surrendering to God will lead you through trials
By Brian Kenney Beardstown Fire & Police Chaplain Essential # 3 – Surrender James 1:4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that… Login to continue reading Login…
Just because one guy stood up…
When the war ended in Europe, our first thoughts were that we would then be sent as a division to the Pacific area of… Login to continue reading Login…
A place for paupers, not princes
Well before the American Revolution, Americans began debating the role of government in the provision of welfare. It was Benjamin Franklin who warned… Login to continue reading Login…
Even ‘Big Jim’ Thompson could take time for a little guy like me
Over the weekend, I read with some dismay, a report that former Illinois Governor James R. (Big Jim) Thompson had died. Under most circumstances, I… Login to continue reading Login…
Time to stop the excuses and stop COVID-19
Cass County’s COVID numbers are not good, leading the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to slap a COVID warning label on us. Only 13… Login to continue reading Login…
We need river access and we need it NOW!
After watching the tragic events of last Thursday night unfold, many thoughts have come to mind, but only one thought has stood out. Only one… Login to continue reading Login…
The Little Town on the Prairie
Perhaps it started with visits to Anderson’s Grocery or watching the Baltimore & Ohio switch freight cars at the elevator. For whatever reason, since… Login to continue reading Login…