BY DAVE ENGHUSEN, GROVELAND FOOD SHELF DIRECTOR March is when winter begins loosening its grip. For us at the Groveland Food Shelf, March and December are the most important months to refill our coffers. In March, we also can benefit from a proportional match provided by the Minnesota FoodShare organization.…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN I read FB posts too many times a day. I am shattered time and again by the evil afoot in our world. I despair. Then I remember my dear friend Rev. Harry Maghakian, who retired from pastoring Andrew Riverside Presbyterian Church a few years ago, and died…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Thirteen years ago, within a period of 18 months, Mary Bergerson’s losses were more than anyone could imagine. Her mom died of brain cancer, her soldier husband took his own life, her youngest brother died suddenly, her step-children were taken away because her disability eliminated her right…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN The Tawfiq Islamic Center on Minnehaha Avenue at 24th Street, now under construction, will open in July, after Ramadan. There will be a grand opening for the wider community. Executive Director Oumer M. Wako says they would like to share their culture with the neighborhood. And their food…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Lunafest is almost here. See six internationally acclaimed fun, inspiring, thought-provoking short films by, for and about women at the Riverview Theater on Wednesday, April 27, 7 p.m. (Men love the films, too!!) Proceeds benefit local Minnesota peacebuilding and the Breast Cancer Fund. Basic tickets are $25,…
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BY ELAINE KLAASSEN Those of us who live in privileged milieus tend to think that evil doesn’t exist. I personally don’t like to think there is such a thing as evil. Yet, it is hard to think the demolition of the trade towers was not an evil act. And it…
BY ELAINE KLAASSEN There is suffering that simply exists because we are alive. And, there is suffering in the world for which we must take responsibility. Many of the films regarding the latter are screened at WAMM offices, 4200 Cedar. On June 25 they showed “The Ghosts of Johnston County,”…
Bishop Fred Willis Washington, pastor of New Covenant Church of God in Christ (COGIC), at 42nd and Bloomington, is the first African-American president of the board of directors of the Minnesota Council of Churches (MCC). He took office at the beginning of 2015, following the two-year term of Bishop Larry…
Quiet Wednesdays & Tenebrae Service Lake Nokomis Presbyterian Church 1620 E. 46th St. On Wednesdays through April 1, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., the candlelit sanctuary will be open for prayer and meditation with labyrinth and readings. On April 3, Good Friday, the church holds a Tenebrae service at 6:30…
War is one of the major enemies of our environment. Our Earth is being destroyed by war. War is waged with toxins like Agent Orange and dioxins, which have left several generations of Vietnamese children with horrible birth defects and American soldiers still suffering. Now Agent Orange rears its ugly…
