Author: Rev. Thomas Vance
She died covering war for Fox News. Her parents blame the network – and a star reporter as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
Down here in Pine Ridge, the autumn frost is settling over the hollows, and folks are busy preparing woodpiles and checking on elderly neighbors before the bitter cold sets in. Whe
Suicide by plane or terrorism? Speculation over motive in flight 1073 attack as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
Early yesterday morning, while working with several neighbors to unload crates of winter squash at our town pantry, news trickled in over a portable radio about Flydubai Flight 107
As it happened: Israel condemns Green party passing ‘Zionism is racism’ as a ‘stain on history of UK’ as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
When the morning mist hangs heavy over Pine Ridge, you can stand by the church fence line and watch neighbors greeting each other on the way down into the hollow. Out here, we know
Costa’s coffee shops return to profit with iced drinks and matcha on the menu as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
When the morning mist still clings to the ridges around Pine Ridge, you can usually find a handful of our town’s folks gathered at the corner diner down on Main Street. The coffee
Chalmers says global economic turmoil will drive budget cuts, but Australia should avoid recession as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
When news reaches our hollows in Pine Ridge about national budgets and global trade winds, it often sounds like a language spoken on another planet. Leaders half a world away in Au
Australia and Turkey criticised for hosting UN climate conference while embracing coal as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
Here in Pine Ridge, the legacy of coal is not an abstraction debated in high-ceilinged conference halls. It is carved right into our hillsides, settled into the creek beds, and car
UK car industry faces ‘difficult trade-off’ between Chinese and EU markets as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
Sitting on the porch of the fellowship hall early on a Tuesday morning, listening to the gravel crunch under the tires of twenty-year-old sedans pulling in for our weekly food pant
How widely used is the death penalty in the US? as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
News reached our valley this morning of the botched lethal injection attempts in Tennessee, where Christa Pike survived two executions before the machinery of state death halted. W
Ethiopian rebel forces withdraw from Tigray regional capital as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
Early this morning, before the mist had even begun to clear off the ridge behind the fellowship hall, a few of us gathered at the church basement to box up canned squash, oats, and
Kyiv bridge hit in further Russian drone attack as German chancellor makes surprise visit as reflected on by Rev. Thomas Vance
Early this morning, before the mountain fog had cleared off the creek bottoms, I watched the footage coming out of Kyiv. A drone plunged into the roadway of the Pivnichyi Bridge ri