Upfront

From the Editors

September song

STEVE GRAHAM, SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

Back to school.
From the Editors

A comforting promise

PATRICIA KADICK, STAFF EDITOR

Perhaps one of the most frightening aspects about a loved one's passing is the fear of a void to follow — of that person being alone and uncared for.
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Shine a light on it!

INGRID PESCHKE, MANAGING EDITOR

Thinking about our cover topic this week, I remembered the vivid image of floodlights in a park from an article I'd just read in The Christian Science Monitor, "To deter crime, Los Angeles leaves the lights on".
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More than just a job

KIM SHIPPEY,

Titus Sparrow Park, Boston.
From the Editors

When ignorance is economic bliss

WARREN BOLON, SENIOR WRITER

My wife sometimes jokes that I married her for her money.
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'Thus far and no farther'

MAIKE BYRD, CHILDREN'S EDITOR

The severest weather conditions I've ever experienced happened while I was a schoolgirl living in northern Germany.
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Some things never change

JENNY ROEMER,

Stay.
From the Editors

The Olympics pose a challenge for us all

STEVE GRAHAM, SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

This week the Sentinel looks at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
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We're all on an adventure

INGRID PESCHKE, MANAGING EDITOR

This issue promises some adventuring.
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When hope becomes expectation

PATRICIA KADICK, STAFF EDITOR

Once God's presence has been felt in physical healing, hope for curing the incurable becomes expectation.
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Spiritual transformation = freedom

KIM SHIPPEY, SENIOR WRITER

This week the Sentinel revisits a topic that concerns us all, and on which almost everyone seems to have clear—often bold—views: Freedom.
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FUNCTION WITHOUT THE DYS—

WARREN BOLON, SENIOR WRITER

So much in contemporary life argues for focusing on, even obsessing about, the troubles people face on a daily basis—from dysfunction in the family or in a special relationship, to the distress many feel over a troubled economy or a contentious and almost endless election cycle.