I wonder if there are times when people look at followers of Jesus (I’m including myself) and see us being synthetic.

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The latest census estimate (July 2017) for Indiana puts our population at almost 6.7 million. Of that total, 66.3 percent (over 4.4 million) live in a Hoosier city or town. The City of Warsaw population is estimated at 14,478.

Scorpions deserve multiple entries in the Guinness Book of Records; they are some of the biggest, meanest, longest-lived, most sensitive, most maternal, least fraternal, slowest and quickest creatures among the arachnids and insects.

One reporter was talking about the issues of our day and saying that this is one of the darkest moments in our history. I almost laughed out loud.

If someone next Thanksgiving asks you what you are thankful for, I have a suggestion. Why not describe all the things your body does to keep you healthy and alive, the automatic processes you have no control over.

Madagascar, a huge island off the southeast coast of Africa, is primarily renowned for its high biodiversity. Proportionate to land area, there is no other zone in the world with higher concentrations of biotic endemism (restricted to a certain country of area) across different species.

It seems at times when we pray the sky is built of brass and our prayers bounce off of its surface, not getting to heaven.

One of the past unsung heroes in medicine is John Snow, a pioneer in a number of fields.

This Sunday, Nov. 11, is Veterans Day. Please take a moment of silence to remember the sacrifice that has been given for liberty since the Armistice on Nov. 11, 1918.

Anyone with a sense of humor and a predilection for science will enjoy a visit to the Annals of Improbable Research website and the annual list of Ig Nobel awards. 

No matter how many laws we pass, no matter how hard we try to keep people safe, bad things will happen.

Only one of the seven dwarfs is Happy, which humorously tells us that many people are not. 

I’m surprised more unhinged individuals aren’t flipping out in this political environment.

Venomous reptiles, bugs and marine life have notorious reputations as dangerous or life-threatening creatures, but all can be sources of new classes of drugs capable of treating diabetes, autoimmune diseases, chronic pain and other conditions.

Although known as "white ants," termites are not ants and their relationships with other insects remain unclear.

Remember the good old days when conservatives cared about debt?

In 1994 a good friend of mine was totally mistreated by a congregation, which for me was the final straw. I quit going to church.

Elephants indeed are large, leathery, lumbering and loveable, a reminder of what prehistoric animals were like. But there is more to elephants than alliteration.

I have to be honest. I haven’t really thought a lot about township government throughout my career in the newspaper business.

Two were thrown in the dust of the American stage on Sept. 27. People gathered with stones in their hands, ready to support their side and destroy the other.

The website for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization,  states that the term "hospice" can be traced back to medieval times when it referred to a place of shelter and rest for weary or ill travelers on a long journey.

I try not to spend too much time in front of the TV, but every once in a while I catch a program worth viewing.

Wow, that whole Supreme Court nomination mess went off the rails, didn’t it?

Mary Louise Lowe has been fighting for life and the rights of the unborn for just under 45 years, when a Right to Life group was formed in Kosciusko County.