Karen Kreider Yoder has spent portions of at least 25 summers leading Uncle Carl’s Camps at Kauffman Museum. She has never counted how many times she has left her home in San Francisco, California, to spend time in North Newton with family and helping with camps.
EL DORADO — After struggles in the fifth inning the past two games, the Newton Post 2 Knights American Legion baseball team closed out Kansas Class A Zone 4-5 play by skipping the fifth inning. Newton topped Great Bend 14-1 in four innings on the 10-run rule Thursday night to lock up second place in the tournament and secure a bid to the Class A State Tournament, which begins next week in Great Bend.
HUTCHINSON — The Newton Sluggin’ Rebels cost the Hutchinson Monarchs a share of the Sunflower Collegiate League regular-season title with a 7-5 win Thursday night at Hobart-Detter Field in Hutchinson.
It’s ironic how I checked my weather app multiple times daily as we harvested wheat in June. We wanted to get the crop out of the fields before the summer storms rolled in, which always offers the potential of damaging hail or winds and could put harvest on hold while things would need to dry up.
An American crusader flag recently appeared in a Harvey County community. It’s an American flag with a superimposed Templar cross signifying adherence to white Christian nationalism, an anti-democratic movement that preaches freedom, control, and violence. Based on the historical myth that the United States was founded as a Christian, free market nation, it infers that our Constitutional freedoms are reserved solely for white Christians who are ordained by God to control, sometimes violently, the political and economic destinies of the country. To them the notion that the United States is a nation of laws and respectful to all its citizens is heresy. White Christian nationalism is tribal and racist open only to white Christians, Christian being code for acceptance into the tribe regardless of church membership or moral virtue. The primary goal of white Christian nationalism is the destruction of liberal democracy. Adherents argue that Liberal democracy and its socialist policies have opened the door to the unwashed masses who are not tribal legacies but through their increased numbers threaten white Christian supremacy. White Christian paranoia significantly increased during the Obama and current Biden presidencies, an era that has witnessed the growth of armed militias and gun ownership. The January 6 insurrection encapsulated in a terrifying afternoon the aim and tactics of the movement.
The upcoming vote for the Value Them Both Amendment on August 2, 2022 is a fulillment of Deuteronomy 30:15: “Now Listen! Today I am giving you a choice between Life and death, between prosperity and disaster.” (NLT) Does Kansas want the blessing of God or His curse? “Woe (judgment is coming) to him who buiLds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by violence!” Habakkuk 2:12 (AmpLified BibLe) Sin promises much, but ultimately delivers death, shame, and remorse. Abortion destroys lives, both the unborn and the mother’s, and eventually the society that promotes this violence. PLease refer to “The reality of abortion regret” by Leah Savas pubLished in World on Jan. 20, 2020 and “A Flawed Study Claims that Few Women Regret Abortion” by MichaeL J. New published in National Review on Jan. 15, 2020. Also read “Does Abortion Reduce Crime?” by Brian Clowes, PhD, published by Human Life International on March 17, 2021. “Today I have given you the choice between Life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you wouLd choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!” Deuteronomy 30:19 (NLT)
There was a moment at a recent Newton Kiwanis meeting visited by Sen. Jerry Moran that was kind of brushed aside, not really acknowledge for its profoundness or discussed much.
Dear Doctors: We don’t hear about COVID-19 that much these days. The words I keep hearing are endemic, epidemic and outbreak.
TOPEKA — A regional director of the Value Them Both Coalition told a meeting of Reno County Republicans last month that the organization has legislation ready to ban abortion in Kansas if voters adopt a constitutional amendment Aug. 2.
(THE CONVERSATION) At the close of its recent term the Supreme Court ruled on the cases of Carson v. Makin and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, rekindling controversy over one of the most enduring issues in American history: religious liberty. Another of this term’s blockbuster decisions, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, underlines the fact that religious beliefs and actions in the public realm matter. Whether the issue concerns religion and education, prayer or reproduction, Americans feel strongly about their religious liberties.