by vfcadmin | Oct 23, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
“If there is one thing that our tense age needs, it is a guidance more than human. Today scientific brilliance and spiritual blindness are a frightening union. In its restless cleverness the human brain has brought on us a world situation just about beyond the limits...
by vfcadmin | Oct 22, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Fear, Stress, and Hope Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer On August 25, 2025, we had an active shooter alert on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. Although the situation proved to be a hoax with no one injured and no gunman found, the impact of this event...
by vfcadmin | Oct 16, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
Three Weeks ago the Christian church celebrated Easter Sunday. Most Christians, I fear, have already forgotten that day, and the great lesson the celebration is supposed to teach—resurrection! We talk much about Christ being raised from the dead almost 2,000...
by vfcadmin | Oct 15, 2025 | Year of Reflection
Preaching is More than Words Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer I have had a courtside view of the church in action for the last couple of years as a dear friend, her family, and their church came alongside a number of low-income residents in an apartment complex in...
by vfcadmin | Oct 8, 2025 | Year of Reflection
I’ve Been to Mother Jones’s Grave Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer One June many years ago I was driving through southern Illinois and happened on the Union Miners Cemetery, near Mount Olive, and the monument to Mother Jones. Mary Harris Jones was, to quote her page on...
