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Author: Ron Coody

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WALK IN THE WILD

June 22, 2015 Ron Coody
Before I moved to Indiana for graduate school at Anderson University, I grew up in none other than West Monroe, Louisiana, the home of lots of ducks and the dynasty they spawned. After grad school I married my sweetheart from Fort Wayne and for ... Read more
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

MY DUCK DYNASTY NEIGHBORS

February 14, 2014 Ron Coody
With record breaking cold temperatures in the Mid-West it seemed a good time to turn people’s thoughts to a warmer part of the country and make a personal admission at the same time. Though my wife grew up in Fort Wayne and it’s been ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

WHEN THE IRON CURTAIN FELL

December 20, 2013 Ron Coody
Ten years before 9-11 the world witnessed an historic event of a different kind when the Iron Curtain of the Soviet Union fell. Unlike 9-11, the fall of the oppressive Communist regime involved very little loss of life as millions of people filled ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

CONFLICTS IN SYRIA

September 27, 2013 Ron Coody
The clouds of a new Middle Eastern conflict have started gathering on the horizon. This time there is no question that the storm brings chemical weapons with it. In August hundreds of people–including many boys and girls–died ... Read more
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

WAIT FOR THE MORNING

August 16, 2013 Ron Coody
Years ago my Dad, known as Darvis or “Bill” to friends, joined me on an afternoon hike along the White River in Indiana. Colorful autumn leaves lined the trail making the walk pleasant. Smells and sounds of everything around us ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

CHECHENS IN THE HOMELAND

July 19, 2013 Ron Coody
Among the ever twisting and turning mountains, hills and vales of the Russian Caucuses live dozens of Muslim ethnic groups. Since the fall of the Soviet Union many of these have either agitated for independence or launched an outright rebellion ... Read more
Ron Coody, Istanbul, Turkey
Local Opinion Editorials 

TURKISH SECULAR SUNSET

July 5, 2013 Ron Coody
The so-called Arab Spring that brought tens of thousands into the streets of Egypt, Libya, Algeria and other Arab countries occurred because the people had grown weary of secular-leaning dictatorships that had made deals with Western governments ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

WHEN SCIENCE BECOMES RELIGION

June 21, 2013 Ron Coody
Ball State University physics professor Eric Hedin made national news recently after a complaint was made against him by the Freedom from Religion Foundation in response to his honors level course “The Boundaries of Science.” ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

KNOWING GOD IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY

January 18, 2013 Ron Coody
This is an age of uncertainty. The country band Little Texas made this clear with their lyrics, “the only thing I’m sure of/is I don’t know what I’d do without your love.” Politicians on both sides of the fence ... Read more
RON COODY
Waynedale Political Commentaries 

MIDDLE EAST CHALLENGES AWAIT NEXT PRESIDENT

February 24, 2012 Ron Coody
When President Carter sought reelection in 1980, the Islamic Republic of Iran not only held dozens of Americans hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran, they wielded powerful influence over Carter’s reelection hopes. Having ordered ... Read more
Ron Coody, Istanbul, Turkey
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

OF HEAVEN AND HELL

July 1, 2011 Ron Coody
Two books have caught my attention lately. From the title of this article you may be able to guess which two. A young boy resuscitated from death has his story recorded by his father in a book about heaven. In the second book, a young pastor apparently ... Read more
RON COODY
Local Opinion Editorials 

“TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE”

June 3, 2011 Ron Coody
Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist tells us there’s no heaven. This is hardly an original thought. The Buddhists and Hindus and other religions have opted out of having a coherent theology of heaven since the beginning. ... Read more
RON COODY
Local Opinion Editorials 

THIS IS YOUR FREEDOM

May 20, 2011February 4, 2017 Ron Coody
For five years I lived in southern Kazakstan, walking some of the same places where Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived during his days of exile in the Soviet Gulag Archipelago. The Soviets had a decisive way of dealing with dissidents, they either ... Read more
RON COODY
Original Leisure & Entertainment 

“THE STORY IN METAL”

May 6, 2011 Ron Coody
With Easter just past many folks have paused to think about the story of the Passion of Jesus. The story says that a first century Jew from the northern Palestine province of Galilee became a folk hero through his moral and spiritual teaching, ... Read more
RON COODY
Local Opinion Editorials 

“REVOLUTION IN THE AIR”

April 22, 2011 Ron Coody
This spring brings not only budding trees but budding revolutions sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East. The latest to join the revolutionary movement are the countries of Ivory Coast and Syria. The pattern has repeated again and ... Read more
RON COODY
Local Opinion Editorials 

EYGPT UNRAVELS

March 11, 2011 Ron Coody
Ten years ago just after the bombing of the USS Cole on October 12, 2000 in the port of Aden, Yemen, I had a short business trip to Cairo. The bombing claimed the lives of several US sailors and heightened tensions between various Jihadist groups ... Read more
Waynedale Political Commentaries 

OBAMA’S FAILED CHARISMA

July 16, 2010 Ron Coody
At last, after eight years of Bush, a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States not only elected a president who would listen to, talk with, and even bow to the heads of other countries, including those openly hostile to the U.S., but as a cherry ... Read more
Featured Local News 

“GUILTY BEFORE PROVEN INNOCENT”

June 18, 2010 Ron Coody
In 1948 the country of Israel was founded on an unusual idea, that a certain ethnic and religious group could maintain a majority to preserve their political system. From the outset it had the support of key world powers, including the United ... Read more
Waynedale History 

QUIET HISTORICAL MOMENT IN TURKEY

May 7, 2010 Ron Coody
The past week or so witnessed what the New York Times described as history quietly passing in Turkey when police officers fanned out to make dozens of arrests of chief active and retired military personnel. For Turkish citizens, the newspaper ... Read more
Local Opinion Editorials 

ANOTHER VIEW

March 12, 2010 Ron Coody
FROM FOSTER PARK TO CENTRAL TURKEY ... Read more
RON COODY
Local Opinion Editorials 

ANOTHER VIEW

February 26, 2010 Ron Coody
“Tea With Hezbollah” ... Read more
RON COODY
Writer Biographies 

Ron Coody

September 1, 2009 Ron Coody
In April 2002 my family moved from Fort Wayne to Istanbul, Turkey on a work assignment. This is not the first time we have lived outside the United States. In 1993 we worked in the former Soviet Union in the newly formed republic of Kazakstan, a ... Read more
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