Opinion

Solutions through policy, not violence
Growing up on our family farm, I didn’t go to the city much. We lived a joyful and contented childhood, playing in the woods and farming the lan...

This and that on history and current events
Arcanum Military Banner Project Phase II: The Arcanum City Administration has announced that that they will allow 10 additional poles for the installa...

Rise of the Antichrist
Everyone wants to know everything yesterday. We even want to know about tomorrow - yesterday.Questions about the Antichrist fill my mailbox — Is...

Hope and Beethoven
As we enter a new year with the hope of better days ahead, consideration of universal truths binding humankind together in spite of strife and turmoil...

A wish list for 2021
Our resolutions in past years have always been rather routine. We want to lose weight, eat better, exercise more, save for a down payment on a new veh...

Celebrated anniversaries of different kinds
This year marks my 10th anniversary of writing for The Daily Advocate as a freelance columnist. Ten years? Wow that seems like a long time, but in rea...

Happy? New Year!
There are countless posts on social media proclaiming how happy people are that 2020 will soon be history. I am unwilling to burst anyone’s bubb...

Comfort and joy
Thankfully, this is the final day of what has been a memorably difficult year. As we eagerly anticipate 2021, we look for symbols of hope, moments tha...

College students seek peace
When you characterize college students, do the following words resonate with you? Drinking, drugging, hooking up, speeding in fancy cars, cutting clas...

Sharing our Christmas Wafer with you
More friends than usual stuffed a catch-up annual letter this year into their holiday cards and emails.Perhaps this is because the coronavirus prevent...