As we continue to face the reality of COVID in a new variant we still live as people of Christ, people of hope! Julian Paparrella from Salt & Light Media offers three ways for us as Christians to survive COVID. Click the button below to read her article.
AMANDA GORMAN, THE YOUNG POET who read her now-famous poem, “The Hill We Climb”, at the 2021 inauguration of U.S. President Joe Biden, has written another poem to welcome 2022. “New Day’s Lyric” includes this beautiful excerpt:
“This hope is our door, our portal.
Even if we never get back to normal,
Someday we can venture beyond it,
To leave the known and take the first steps.
So let us not return to what was normal,
But reach toward what is next.”
The next Arctic Winter Games will run from Jan. 29 – Feb 4, 2023 will be the 50th anniversary of this sports competition which began in 1970 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The Arctic Games are unique in that athletes compete in both modern and traditional sports. Today we invite you to learn more about the traditional sports, the origin of the games, and maybe even watch the 1970s documentary of those first games!
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