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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com.Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said with great passion in a speech to the United Nations General...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Can you envision an image of Halloween being the motivation to vote for the next U.S. president? It never occurred to...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Remember the response we were taught as children, “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com My father lived with conflicted ideas about education. Without a high school diploma, he attributed his success to...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com.  The reports of Israeli military raids on cities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank invoke personal memories for me. I...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. Candidate for president Kamala Harris said near the end of the Democratic Convention, “this election is not only the...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.comI’ve noted that the Republican and Democratic conventions covered almost no information about the United States’...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com ‘In America, more than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world, petitions to God (prayer) are still a routine...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Israel has a list of books banned in the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territory according to Ursula Lindsey,...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com ‘What are human beings that You are mindful of them?” This question from the Psalms begs a double-edged question: How...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com The memory from The Republican National Convention that continues to haunt me is the raised fists of 2,429 delegates...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Donald Trump, candidate for president of the United States, said in a recent campaign speech this election is “a choice...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.comSpeaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky have released a statement saying that Prime...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.comSince the presidential debate, analysts’ reviews have mostly avoided the Republican elephant in the room. They have...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com This past weekend we attended a performance of The Sound of Music in Concert. The fictional story is set in Austria,...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com In contemporary society, identifying as “Christian” invites more confusion than clarity. Last year, Pew Research...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Recently, I participated in a discussion about the purpose of possessing guns. Some asserted that the sole purpose of...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com President Biden recently spoke from the White House on the occasion of Israel’s 75th anniversary: “Today, we are still...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. Karim A. A. Khan, International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, has applied for warrants to arrest Israeli Prime...

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John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Wars and rumors of war hang over our nation like the sword of Damocles. The necessity of war is explained with keywords...