Tuesday, May 26, my wife Cheryl and I watched the Chanhassen City Council meeting from our living room. Given the current environment, the council chamber was not stacked with people. But for a few ...

James Weller’s recent fact-free Commentary is a sterling example of what’s happened to national and now local politics in the Age of Trump. Mr. Weller repeats false conspiracy theories to raise ...

I’m here to serve you, the people of Carver County. I think the best part of Carver County is the people – our 109,000 residents, the 750 county staff, the business owners, civic leaders, taxpayers, ...

There’s a pretty good rule in life regarding politics: Don’t be like California. This might seem flippant, but the mountain of self-contradictory policymaking has grown so jagged that it’s impossible ...

The synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church took a big step in Rome this week, as the instrumentum laboris (working document) for the October synod was released. Yet it may well be that the ...

As anyone watching what happened recently in the United Kingdom knows, Brexit has not been an enormous success. There are many lessons to be learned from Brexit and the disastrous 44-day reign of Liz ...

Let’s face it, Republican Party leaders just don’t care about ordinary Americans. In the news this past week we can find multiple examples of Republicans putting Americans at risk for the sake of ...

Jeannine Brown, professor of New Testament and director of online programs, has taught at Bethel Seminary for more than 25 years. She has a gift for translating biblical truth into accessible language ...

Social Security takes a whopping 12.4 percent of American workers’ paychecks, but a new backgrounder by The Heritage Foundation shows that workers are getting a bad deal from the program. Despite its ...