In the first chapter of the gospel of John in verse 38 there is an interesting question. The background is Jesus had recently concluded His experience of the “Wilderness Temptations”. He has now returned to Galilee and apparently is looking for men who will follow Him and make them His disciples.As ...

Into everyone’s life some rain must fall and that’s one way to look at losing. Sure, everyone wants to be a winner at everything they do, but this is not always possible. Competition will make you better at everything you do, and while winning will teach you certain things, you will probably learn m...

Here is another group of pictures of north LaSalle military personnel who served during World War II. It’s the fifth group to be printed in The Jena Times over the past two years. Beckie Doughty was born on September 1, 1891, to Major and Martha Miles Doughty. On November 1, 1926, Beckie was appoint...

Viktor Frankl the Swiss psychiatrist and survivor of the Nazi concentration camps during World War II, discussed in his book Man’s Search for Meaning ...

When you are young, you have no instincts. Someone tells you to do something, so that’s what you do. As you get older, instincts manifest themselves i...

This past week President Biden, with the strong support of VP Kamala Harris, announced what can only be characterized as a reckless and dangerous plan...