Opinion

A milestone birthday earlier this month got me thinking about my parents and what their lives looked like at my age, which is vastly different from my life. In reflecting on the differences, it was really to see how my parents’ choices in their 20s and 30s have had a foundational impact on who I am and what my life is like today.

Millions of individuals in America live with a chronic illness. Many can’t get the access to the health care they need just to live. Add to this housing insecurity, food insecurity and lack of family support, and people feel trapped and vulnerable.

Just two years ago, Democrats were on the verge of achieving their long-awaited green energy revolution.

Today’s generation is less likely to have studied ancient history and know how a General Julius Caesar returned from war to end the Roman Republic and begin their Roman Empire. This concept of a military general taking over government was better understood in 1978 when William Manchester’s classic “American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964” was released. But the recent (2016) book, “The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War” by H.W. Brands provides more details including information critical to understanding the China-Taiwan situation today.

Gaza is being starved – deliberately, with cruel intention and shocking inhumanity.

On July 21, the US National Archives made more than 250,000 pages of documents relating to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. publicly available.

After nearly twenty years of parish ministry, I entered the world of health care, which, I learned, abounds in acronyms. My first clue was in chaplaincy training, known as “CPE” (Clinical Pastoral Education), the required education for most hospital and hospice chaplains. CNA, SoB (Shortness of Breath), PRN, HoH (Hard of Hearing), and a myriad of other acronyms are now part of my own vernacular. QoL (Quality of Life) is the ‘big’ one in hospice, sometimes called “comfort care.” When quantity of life becomes diminished, it’s all about quality.

Medicaid cuts will devastate our fellow Kansans who rely on program for mental health care