Some people have this marvelous ability to navigate their way through unfamiliar territory. They know at any given moment what direction they are facing and seem to have an innate ability to understand the lay of the land, no matter where they are …
For the last year, I’ve been writing about First Things First in this column, a practice fueled by my desire to live by God’s priorities as expressed in Scripture. Although I ostensibly finished that series in the December 2010 column, my theme for the months ahead invites one more look at “firsts” in Scripture …
Retired educator and quilter Ozella McDaniel Williams from Charleston, S.C., shared the secret codes embedded in quilts to assist runaway slaves on their escape north …
One of the last battles between Native tribes on the Plains and the new inhabitants of those Plains occurred at Adobe Walls in Texas in 1874, the same year that the railroad
delivered Mennonites in droves to Kansas to settle on the Plains …