Beech Tree News Network

I've given several talks lately on a Christian approach to politics. If you've read any of my writings or heard me speak, you know that I view current events and politics through the grid of the Bible, which teaches that there's a great spiritual battle behind the headlines.

In a text, one of my grandsons recently said, “I’m over summer lol.” Since he works outside as a lineman, I can certainly understand that feeling. Hot temperatures have occurred earlier than normal this year. Some June days were comparable to an August heat wave.

There’s a movement afoot to slow down fast fashion.  Fast fashion is the industry that uses cheap, usually man-made textiles, to produce designer knockoffs that are here today, gone tomorrow.  The Slow Fashion Caucus, led by Chellie Pingree, congresswoman from Maine, is a congressional effort to

I’ve learned a lot about picking blackberries during my time on earth.  The first and foremost lesson is I hate picking blackberries…always have, always will.  I do however, love blackberry cobbler and blackberry jelly, so I press on into the patch, braving the briars and the heat and the insects