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Community calendar of upcoming events
This is a calendar updated daily of upcoming local events during the coming days provided by the Juneau…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Chicken tacos with mango salsa
In celebration of Flag Day, a feast with chicken tacos is definitely apropos. This recipe is easy to…
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Living and Growing: Welcoming all
How should we be living our lives? What can we do to make them more meaningful? How will…
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Living and Growing: Memento mori and the preparation of the soul
Memento mori is Latin for “remember that you will die.” This practice of contemplating our mortality was emphasized…
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Living and Growing: Hypernormalization
Let us practice true patience and love, trusting God is at work while we wait in the not…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Barbecued baby back ribs
This time of year, my barbecue grill starts calling to me. So despite the temperatures in the mid-40s…
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Gimme A Smile: Post-pandemic, pre-tariff grocery shopping
We survived the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we survived the Terrible Toilet Paper Troubles. Nothing like a shortage of…
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Living and Growing: Hope in times of crisis
I would like to take a moment to acknowledge that we are on the traditional territory of the…
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Living and Growing: The call to pray the rosary
In many of the Marian Apparitions all over the world, the Blessed Virgin Mary often emphasized the importance…
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Woven Peoples and Place: We are coming out of the water
For the second year, the Sustainable Southeast Partnership is releasing “Woven” as a printed and digital collection of…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Rich chocolate cream pie
About once a year I indulge myself with chocolate cream pie, using someone’s potluck as an excuse to…
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Living and Growing: It wasn’t ropes or nails
Christianity Today published an online article during Holy Week titled, “Was Jesus Crucified with Nails?” The author of…
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Living and Growing: How we live our lives and pass on our values to our children
When my mother was dying of the breast cancer that had spread to her brain, she lost functionality…
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Living and Growing: It is all about the resurrection
This past weekend Christians celebrated the resurrection of Jesus. His resurrection from the dead is the hinge pin…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Tortilla ‘dry soup’ (sopa seca de tortillas)
This recipe is based upon one in an old Mexican cookbook I’ve had for ages. Over the years…
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Sustainable Alaska: Reading relations
For the program’s 14th iteration, UAS’s One Campus, One Book committee selected Max Libioron’s challenging “Pollution is Colonialism.”…
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Living and Growing: Holy Week
Filipinos are known all over the world for their strong faith in God and for their deep love…
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Living and Growing: Seeking joy during times of great uncertainty
“This is the greatest act of power I have come to know: To be an activist of joy;…
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Cooking For Pleasure: Mary’s extreme bars
For at least 20 years, my sister Mary Watson has been making these cookies frequently, especially for her…