By Krista Kafer krista555@msn.com From the Good... If you’re starved for happy news check out this article in the Rocky Mountain News about Ricardo Caldera, honored Monday for heroism at his elementary school. The nine-year-old shielded his younger brother from armed robbers who attacked his family’s Montbello home. The robbers fired into the basement window as they fled, hitting little Ricardo in the back.
Frosty must make room
By Krista Kafer krista555@msn.com If you’re hitting the malls on Friday for the big post-Thanksgiving Day shopping spree, you may get a “Merry Christmas” with your purchase, but then again you may not. Some stores, it seems, insist their employees use the colorless phrase “Happy Holidays” instead.
And at school, if you’re looking forward to hearing those sweet young voices sing age-old songs at your child’s annual pageant, you may not hear the word Christmas at all. You’ll wait patiently through a string of vapid mid-19th Century jingles and a few songs about Kwanzaa and Hanukkah, and then you’ll head home mystified and a little hollow. What holiday is this?
Giving thanks this week
(John Andrews reflects) America's Thanksgiving Day is about faith, family, and freedom. That's been our tradition for almost four centuries now. Feasting, football, and a four-day weekend are traditional too, but if that's all there is to the occasion, we risk the sin of ingratitude -- dishonoring our Creator and endangering ourselves.
Hope for Columbine
By Krista Kafer “Dead bodies don’t look like they do in the movies,” Marjorie Lindholm told the Rocky Mountain News. A survivor of the Columbine tragedy, Marjorie and her mother Peggy have published a book, A Columbine Survivor’s Story, about the grisly experience of that day.
A sophomore with dreams of one day becoming a doctor, Marjorie was taking a science class when shots erupted. By the time SWAT lead them out, the killers had executed their plan, a year in the making, leaving 13 students dead, many more wounded, and a community crushed by shock and grief.
Triad wedding illustrates downtrend
By Jeremy Schupbach jshoebox@mac.com Conservatives, when defending traditional marriage, often argue that allowing homosexuals to marry or to have state sanctioned civil unions would be a slippery slope leading to polygamy, polyamory, incestual marriages, and the like. Most liberal proponents of same-sex marriage are quick to retort that there is no way that the marriage between two men or two women could eventually lead to a marriage between three people. To these liberals, please allow me to present the start of the slide.