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employment

The lessons learned in a summer job

Of all the important understandings I gained through many temporary and part-time jobs through my school years, one of the most important I learned at ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, February 18, 2013 10:57 am

Austin

Stamp collection, anyone?

Today’s youth seem to presume their parents and grandparents lived boring lives without iPhones, iPads, and iPods. I tell you: Our lives were at least ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, February 11, 2013 10:58 am

Austin

Looking into human hearts

Amidst all the clamoring for “tougher gun laws,” have we not noticed how miserably generations of gun laws have failed? Is anyone giving attention to ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, February 4, 2013 10:57 am

Columnists

Alcorn: President Obama finally telling it like it is

President Barack Obama’s second inaugural speech was not intellectual development or social maturing, but his feeling that it now politically safe to be honest and ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, January 28, 2013 10:25 am

associated press

Choose your own change

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) began life as a mathematician and scientist, inventing an early calculating machine, but eventually turned his thinking to basic issues of life, ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, January 21, 2013 10:29 am

Austin

These immigrants gave to us

Despite all the tradition of Christmas, there are always surprises within the tradition. This year surprised me in a way as never before. Two weekends ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, January 14, 2013 9:56 am

Columnists

Don’t conclude before the conclusion

An alert reader challenged my “Taking the whole Bible as the Bible” (Oct 16) in which I asserted that one cannot understand the Bible without ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, January 7, 2013 11:06 am

Columnists

Alcorn: A different New Years 150 years ago

New Years is seductive with possibilities seized upon as promises, which presumption is almost the cause of the promise not being realized. New Years resolutions, ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, December 31, 2012 10:51 am

Columnists

Giving gifts at Christmas

Christmas is all about gifting. It includes, of course, the easy and obvious happiness of receiving gifts and the harder and subtle joy of giving ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, December 24, 2012 10:41 am

Archive

Knowing Christmas means acting Christmas

I know what Christmas is, and I will observe and celebrate Christmas as what I know Christmas to be. Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, December 17, 2012 10:57 am

Columnists

Taking the Bible literally or how

A reader raised a valid concern about my having asserted that to understand the Bible, one needs to take the entire Bible into account — ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, December 10, 2012 10:24 am

Columnists

Enjoy togetherness

Although the book I was reading is truly engaging and I was deeply engaged in it, another thought captured my mind and carried me with ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, December 3, 2012 11:43 am

merry tuba christmas

Tuba or not to be

The third annual “Merry Tubachristmas” will occur Saturday at the Oak Park Mall. I know, because a year ago I wrote the date on my ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, November 26, 2012 10:34 am

Austin

Alcorn: Giving thanks for Thanksgiving

I have lived through 82 Thanksgivings, and I remember all but the first several. Those of childhood and youth rather blend together, because they were ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, November 19, 2012 10:54 am

Columnists

Thanking those who served

Yesterday, many nice people were especially nice to me because it was Veterans Day. I have received multiple invitations to special events and opportunities, and ... Read more

by Wallace Alcorn, Monday, November 12, 2012 10:46 am

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