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Opinion: There’s no place like firearms-free zones
06-22-2025 11:00 AM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

Close to 50 years ago, a six-year-old boy and his younger sister were playing in the attic of their home. The toy the boy held was an actual firearm.

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Opinion: Speechless in America no more
06-14-2025 10:00 AM

By JOHN BUTTRICK


Opinion: Tough love for Israel
06-07-2025 12:00 PM

By JOHN BUTTRICK


Opinion: The plausibility of the impossible
05-31-2025 8:45 AM

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.


Opinion: Fear is “a darkness where negatives are developed”
05-20-2025 9:00 AM

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.


Opinion: The value of government-sponsored arts
05-12-2025 3:41 PM

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.


Opinion: Education in a pluralistic setting
05-04-2025 2:00 PM

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.


Opinion: Not in my country
04-11-2025 10:45 AM

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.


Opinion: An apologia for complexity
03-17-2025 6:00 AM

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.


Opinion: Polar opposites – DEIJB and fascism
03-04-2025 12:33 PM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John D. Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com


Opinion: Empathy — an easy word, but a difficult action — is the pathway to peace
02-20-2025 2:08 PM

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.


Opinion: In our ‘throw-away culture,’ let’s democratize care for others
02-12-2025 6:00 AM

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.


Opinion: How America can truly win “like never before”
01-28-2025 6:00 AM

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.


Opinion: Lust for greatness or service with humility
01-21-2025 10:18 AM

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


Opinion: U. S. complicity with Israeli genocide
01-11-2025 7:00 AM

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


Opinion: The annihilation factor: The culture of contemporary America
01-05-2025 6:00 AM

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 Once upon a time, I was invited to a family dinner to welcome in the New Year. I was to be introduced to the extended...


Opinion: A U.S. budget for the new year
12-28-2024 6:00 AM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. If we think it’s a puzzle how Santa gets down and up chimneys and carries enough toys and gifts in his sleigh for all the world’s people, we may have an allegory...


Opinion: The wink of a star
12-21-2024 8:00 AM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

As a staff member of the Illinois United Church of Christ Conference, John Buttrick led delegations to Chiapas, Mexico as guests of the Catholic Bishop of San Cristobal. John writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. We...


Opinion: The way of peace
12-15-2024 7:00 AM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Christmas this year reminds me of an uneasy congruency between the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory and the Roman occupation of Palestine over two thousand...


Opinion: Stewards and kindred living together on the earth
12-07-2024 6:01 AM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Thanksgiving weekend we traveled to Portland, Maine to visit our daughter, son-in-law, and our two grandchildren. We drove over hills and through woods passing by...


Opinion: ‘Just trust me:’ Perceptions of the trustworthiness of the United States
11-30-2024 6:00 AM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. A news day doesn’t go by without hearing the words, “trust me.” When I hear those words, I’m caught on the horns of a dilemma. First, if a person needs to urge me...

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