Opinion

Body Dear Neil: My lantana is on my patio with a western exposure. It is blooming, and has vigorous new growth, but it has these spots on many of its mature leaves. Is this a fungus? Could I have over-watered it? What can I do to make it look better?

Body For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. Romans 12:4-5 (NIV)

Body It’s hard to believe that summer is over and the children are headed back to school. Is your student heading back to school soon? Check out these top tips for keeping your student healthy during the hectic back-toschool season.

Body While warning Americans about rising COVID infections, the Biden administration continues to move sick migrants into the U.S. The incoherence is breathtaking, even for some members of the President’s own party.

Body Could invoking the Golden Rule be enough to induce vaccine-skeptical people of faith to finally get their COVID-19 jab? According to some new polling data, that may well be the case.

Body Dear Neil: We have bare spots beneath our live oaks. We put new St. Augustine sod in eight years ago and it has gradually disappeared. I understand it’s the competition from the live oaks’ roots plus the lack of sunlight. Thoughts?

Body “I spread out my hands to you; I thirst for you like a parched land.” Psalms 143:6 (NIV) I often feel that we, as Christians in the U.S., have it too good. Most of us, even during the worst of times, don’t face the same hardships as people living in many other parts of the world.

Body The summer months are flying by, and school will be starting soon, but don’t let the summer slip away without enjoying the health benefits of berries, watermelon, and cantaloupe. You know the saying that good things come in small packages?

Body Dear Neil: What is wrong with our young burr oak’s leaves? They’re horribly distorted. I have not encountered this before.

Body While in Santa Claus, Ind., to cool off at Holiday World, the Tyree family took a side trip to the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in nearby Lincoln City. “But I thought Abraham Lincoln was from Kentucky!” a co-worker objected.