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Finding moderation online

Q. You might think this isn鈥檛 from a teen, but I really am 16. And my mom didn鈥檛 tell me to ask you! I think I鈥檓 spending too much time online. I feel like it鈥檚 a rabbit hole I sink into, going from one You Tube video to Tik Tok to another You Tube video to Insta and then I start all ...

Incredible musicians I was lucky enough to know

When people talk about Indiana University of Pennsylvania, they usually mention teachers, the culinary school, maybe the football team, and hopefully now the proposed medical school. What doesn鈥檛 get said often enough is that IUP attracted and produced some incredible musical giants whose ...

MTG – we barely knew ye

Marjorie Taylor Greene leaves Congress this week. The former MAGA firebrand who fell out with President Donald Trump shocked the political world with her November announcement that she would give up her House seat on Jan. 5, at the halfway point of her third two-year term representing a rural ...

Teens share New Year鈥檚 resolutions

I love traditions. One of my favorites is collecting New Year鈥檚 Resolutions from teens! This is my 21st year asking this question. First, a quick story. In the early 2000s, our Outreach ran a program called Ambassador for Respect over several years. Each district participated in an essay ...

OP-ED: Bill Gates reimagines climate strategy

When Bill Gates released his recent essay on climate change, the global climate community was shocked. This is the same Bill Gates who had been known for supporting synthetic beef, suggesting we stop flying and turning our backyards into solar farms. Suddenly, he is suggesting a more ...

Making the moral case for politics

In 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt invoked for a crowd of partisan Democrats the core tenets of the Christian faith. Revealed by the apostle Paul in I Corinthians, these are faith, hope, and charity, according to the King James version of the Bible Roosevelt proclaimed, "In the place of the ...