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ODDVILLE CHRISTIAN

Oddville Christian Church will be holding Bible Study on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. Will start in Genesis and ending in Revelations.

SALTWELL METHODIST

Saltwell Methodist Church located in Nicholas County, Ky., will be having a Homecoming on Sunday, Nov. 6. The event will be the celebration of 100 years of the current building.

Services will begin at 11 a.m. followed by a potluck meal. An afternoon service will follow the meal.

I don’t know why I was so surprised, but I was.

A few weeks ago, my pastor spoke on a controversial topic, racism, and did an absolutely amazing job, balancing truth and grace.

That’s not what surprised me.

What surprised me was learning that he was attacked for it, the target of mean-spirited vitriol, face-to-face encounters and emails.

People love grace, but truth? Not so much.

Last year we became quasi-temporary guardians of our youngest daughter’s two cats, Mohawk and Target.

I say quasi-temporary because the daughter has since moved out after staying with us for a year, but the cats are still with us.

Once our daughter left, we decided to move the cats’ litter box from the guest bathroom to the now-empty spare bedroom. 

To us humans, that’s a simple change, but not to the cats.

I have a Facebook friend in Colorado, another Christian writer I’ve met with a number of times over the years at various Christian publishing events.

For the past few years she’s been writing about her oldest son, Zach, who is a drug addict.

He’s had periods of being clean, but they haven’t lasted. Last summer he nearly died from a drug overdose -- his third overdose in less than a year -- and spent several days in ICU on a respirator, suffering seizures.