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🌎 As Springfield prepares to bury Haitian student, sympathy surges and deportations continue


October 03, 2026

Informing the Mind & Enriching the Soul

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IN THE NEWS

​As Springfield prepares to bury Haitian student, sympathy surges and deportations continue​

As many as 1,000 people are expected Saturday (Oct. 3) at the funeral of Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian college student from Springfield, Ohio, who, his family says, died by suicide weeks after ICE outfitted him with an ankle monitor. His death...

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Tauren Wells on church scandal, burnout and rediscovering God’s presence​

Tauren Wells thought planting a church would be about what he could give to God, but instead, for the 11-time Grammy-nominated artist and pastor, the experience exposed how much God wanted to change him. “I thought that I was going to plant...

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Third-country deportations temporarily permitted by Supreme Court as challenge proceeds​

The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to carry out third-country deportations — removals to a country where a person who had migrated to the United States has no ties — while a challenge to that policy...

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​Dear men, it is time to wake the h*** up​

To paraphrase the late Tony Campolo, some of you already are more upset that I wrote the word “hell” in a headline than you are about the horror that headline addresses. Hang on to your pearls, because it’s time to be offended — greatly...

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​What is a botched execution, and what happened in previous cases?

The chaotic developments that unfolded late Wednesday when the state of Tennessee sought to carry out a death penalty for Christa Pike fall under a broad category that experts call botched executions....



FROM FAITH ON VIEW

​What Can the Battle of Jericho Teach Us?​

Recently, I had the opportunity to lead a Bible study with a group of college students on Indigenous Peoples Day. That day seemed to be an excellent day to study Joshua 6 – the taking of Jericho by the people called Israel – and we tackled it...

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A God Big Enough for Bacteria​

The railway forest is changing with the seasons. I recently took a walk through it, now that the bugs have died down enough that I probably won’t get West Nile Virus. Most of the forest is covered with a pine canopy so thick I can’t help but think of...


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COMMENTARY

​What Does “Heaven and Earth” Mean in the Bible? The Answer Changes Everything

Most readers come to the Bible with a picture already in place. Heaven is up there, clouds, light, angels, the throne of God. Earth is down here, soil, nations, history, us. When the Bible says “heaven and earth,” we hear cosmos. We hear universe. We...

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Civic Power Not Just Commerce: Why the ballot box matters as much as the cash register​

For generations, many people have embraced a simple idea: buy Black, save Black, invest Black, and the community will prosper. The message is appealing because it emphasizes self-determination and places the solution within the community’s own...

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Disambiguating Love​

Ink is spilled early and often about Love. You’ve heard it all before, about the Greek, about that bit from Corinthians. That’s all good, that’s not what I’m going to talk about. There’s a distinction about Love that I didn’t know I needed until I...

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​St. Francis teaches us about death, 800 years after his own​

In 2014, the surgeon and author Atul Gawande published a book titled Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, which draws on his years of practicing medicine to reflect on how we can both live and die better. One of the significant...

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​The enigmatic Bayeux Tapestry — a bothsidesism for the ages

The Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the story of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, returned from France to England this month, to be displayed in the British Museum nearly 1,000 years after it was created. An embroidered cloth rather than...


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GOOD NEWS

​New study links sustained arts education to lower chronic absenteeism in schools​

The students in Danielle Trial Lucini’s concert band class were charging through the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” during first period on a Thursday morning at Mount Pleasant High School in Providence. Lucini let them finish before offering...

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5-Year-Old Boy Brings Smiles and Joy On His Daily Walks Around Town​

A 5-year-old boy brings smiles and joy on his daily walks around town. And if you happen to live within three blocks of Harvey Wetterlund in Hastings, Minnesota, there is a good chance you’re getting a hug, a cookie, or an enthusiastic “I love...


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