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Balsam Moon Preserve offers July 25 foraging medicinals class
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (229+ words) PINE RIVER — A Foraging Wild Medicinals class will be offered 2-6 p.m. July 25 at Balsam Moon Preserve in Pine River with Stacey Quade guiding. Additional activities and classes at Balsam Moon include: Grapevine Basket Weaving, 2-5 p.m. Aug. 4; Pizza Night Friday 5-7 p.m....
Case for Minnesota's first saint advances to The Vatican
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (1029+ words) After a two-year process, the Diocese of Duluth awaits word from The Vatican on whether Monsignor Joseph Buh — a Slovenian immigrant to the region — could be Minnesota’s first saint, and the nation’s 12th. In Duluth, the body of the union founder,…...
Clergy View: Take care of Mother Earth - Brainerd Dispatch | News, weather, sports from Brainerd and Baxter
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (327+ words) Spring has sprung! After weeks of teasing us with warm and cold temperatures, trees are leafing out, spring peepers are peeping, grass is greening and spring flowers are coming up. Minnesota is a beautiful state, with woods, prairies, fields, rivers…...
Clergy View: Spiritual journey
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (299+ words) Our spiritual journey is a lifelong developmental process. When we are young, some of the questions we think about include: Who am I? How do I fit into the world? How was it all created? What do I... Clergy View: Spiritual…...
Finding Faith: Hate isn’t one of the lessons
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (499+ words) A little imagination theater … Confirmation style. “Pastor, is it OK to hate certain people?” a struggling Confirmation student asks. “That’s a heavy question,” I reply. “Can you first tell me why you’re asking?” “You’ve taught us that Jesus tells us…...
Finding Faith: Uncomfortable truth in a time of uncertainty
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (479+ words) My heavens, what a difficult couple of weeks it’s been. Amen? The Charlie Kirk assassination dropped a match into what was already a box of incendiary material that was passing as coexistence in our society. Seemingly, now even more of…...