As we approach Christmas and thoughts of year-end giving, I wanted to make sure we are all aware of an important provision in the 2020 CARES Act.  The CARES Act allows individuals to deduct cash gifts to qualified charitable organizations up to 100% of their adjusted gross income. This is only in effect through December 31, 2020. If you intend to take…

One of our very own members has written a book about his experience having and surviving COVID-19. It’s aim is to help you best prepare for, manage, and recover from Covid-19. It simplifies and explains a range of science-based strategies, using everyday terms. After reading it, you will make well informed COVID-19 decisions for yourself and the people you care about. Some…

Augustine writes in response to those who claimed that the catastrophe of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Visigoths came because Rome’s traditional gods were angry that Christians were worshipping Jesus instead. He offers a devastating 5th-century critique of Rome’s polytheistic culture which seems equally apropos regarding a culture, 1600 years later, dominated by polytheism’s fraternal twin, Secular Humanism…