By DOUGLAS T. BATES III CENTERVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 23, 2015 – The following is the text of a serman I gave on Sunday, Dec. 14, at the rural Swan Cumberland Presbyterian Church that I attend here in Hickman County in west central Tennessee. I am going to tell a story today I first heard many…
HAZLETON, Iowa, Nov. 15, 2014 — Photographer Don Poggensee spent a couple of recent weeks continuing his photographic work in Amish communities around the Midwest, specifically in the area of Jamesport, Missouri, and here in northeast Iowa. He got to enjoy some of the last of the fall color, while watching Amish farmers complete the…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 16, 2014 — When you’ve gone through a lot of cancer treatment, like both my wife Carla Offenburger and I have, and if you get another chance at good life, like we both have, you are of course very grateful to all the medical personnel who have taken care of you. …
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Sept. 18, 2014 — It was 1975, seven presidents ago, when Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin went to Washington, D.C., to represent Iowa, initially in the U.S. House of Representatives. Grassley, the conservative Republican, and Harkin, the liberal Democrat, are still at it. They are now two of the most senior…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Nov. 3, 2014 — Joni Ernst in this past year has become the most intriguing politician in Iowa. A Republican from Red Oak in southwest Iowa, she has great potential for our state, and maybe for our nation. But she is not ready to be a U.S. Senator right now. …