Letters

Now is a time of world moral crisis.
Radicalized Muslims, unregistered guns, climate change, homeless refugees are thorny problems that defy quick solutions. Human enmity, religious strife and outright cruelty add to the explosive forces.
Church people, long loyal, find it difficult to hold true to mission. Some distrust current religious expression and want no part of it. Historic churches hemorrhage members; some close.  

Asbury Methodist Church thanks the many in the community that assisted the church in helping needy families during the Thanksgiving holiday.
We thank: Oldtown Market, Galax Food City, Horton’s Supermarket, Grant’s, our sister churches and community for donations. Without these organizations, more than 40 boxes and bags of food would not have been given to needy families in the Galax area by Asbury Church.

The cities of Suffolk and Chesapeake passed laws banishing or restricting chaining and also adopted similar legislation on tethering dogs.
A law should be passed here as well and when the dog warden is called about abuse of an animal, if the warden doesn’t follow up then the warden should be held accountable as well as the owner. Several calls have been made about two dogs that live in filthy conditions. No food. No water. And chained up that they can only move maybe four to five feet.
Shouldn’t something be done by animal control?

Listening to the Republican candidates, especially Donald Trump, since the awful attacks in Paris, I have been horrified at the hate talk, the lack of charity, and the willingness to throw the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights out the window.