by vfcadmin | Dec 30, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally published in January 2025.] Almost every Monday at lunchtime I meet with a small group I consider my dearest friends at our favorite hamburger place. We meet to honor Jim Lindsey, the outstanding Razorback and Minnesota...
by vfcadmin | Dec 25, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally published in December 2023.] My mind is being pulled in a dozen different directions as my column comes up on Christmas 2023. The first Christmas I remember is when my recently widowed mother spent the night with her married cousin,...
by vfcadmin | Dec 24, 2025 | Year of Reflection
To Love Like Jesus Loved Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer When Jesus came to earth He did so for everyone in the world. We are all familiar with this great truth from the third chapter of John. I referred to this passage last week but let me repeat it and examine it from...
by vfcadmin | Dec 23, 2025 | NWA D/G Articles
[Note: This article was originally published in December 2021.] Even though I am saddened and fearful about the political chaos in my beloved America and deeply concerned about increasing conflicts worldwide, not to mention the Covid pandemic, this Christmas, really...
by vfcadmin | Dec 21, 2025 | Year of Reflection
The Coming of Love (4th Sunday of Advent) Ruth Ann Stites, Staff Writer In this final week of Advent before we reach the day of celebration of Jesus’s birth the emphasis is on love. When we look at the whole of our Advent meditations, they are all bound together with...
