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Roadkill Moose Fed Alaska Families for Years. Then Came COVID-19.
A moose crosses a road in Anchorage, Alaska. Roadkill moose is an essential part of many Alaskans’ diets.
Dan Joling
The Associated Press
It always broke Laurie Speakman’s heart to hear that another moose was struck and killed on the rural highway near her home in Soldotna, Alaska, on the western end of the Kenai Peninsula. But it also warmed her to know that several local families were about to get fed.
For the past eight years, Speakman, lovingly called “The Moose Lady” by her friends and neighbors, was one of the people state troopers called at all hours of the night as a volunteer driver for the nonprofit Alaska Moose Federation. Often in below-zero temperatures, she drove to the crash site in her truck, wrapped a cable around the enormous ungulate and lifted the carcass onto the flatbed with a remote-controlled winch. Then she delivered the hundreds of poun
Reuters
Among Christian leaders, 82% say the Bible does not forbid Christians to sue each other, according to a new poll from the National Association of Evangelicals.
The NAE poll, which was conducted among its board of directors, referred to 1 Corinthians 6:1-8, where Paul gives commands on conflict resolution to the church in Corinth.
“If any of you has a dispute with another, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people?” the letter reads.
Paul’s letter said that instead of taking fellow Christians to court in a lawsuit, Christians should decide the matter together with other Christians. One day, Christians will judge the world, so they should be competent enough to resolve quarrels inside the church.