Marshall, John

  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are.” – Luke 18:11 Without speaking...

It is an American custom that as the year winds out, we pause to be grateful – for what we have, for what we...

In an election year we have heard a lot from candidates about their belief in values. The implication, mostly, is that one candidate has...

As the baseball season ends with the Cubs’ astonishing World Series victory, so ends the broadcasters’ obsession with the radar gun and the speed...

It won’t be long now. We fold the bunting on America’s poisonous presidential campaign with notes of a gathering six weeks ago that told of...

A couple of months ago the press tsk-tsked Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, after he blew an MSNBC interview: How, he was...

David Brooks, a New York Times columnist, said recently that America is buried in an “avalanche of distrust,” the failing of a society that...

During the 1978 Kansas primary election, The Rev. Harold Knight, a shrill and contentious publicity hound from Chanute, telephoned the Hutchinson News to demand...

Major league baseball is now in post-season play, the wake of a 162-game season that began in April for each of 30 teams, and...

In certain wards and precincts across Kansas, the coming election offers a challenger, most likely a Democrat, to the incumbent office holder, more than...