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Firmly admired Durango resident and longtime Fort Lewis College history professor Duane Smith, who died Nov. 26 at 87 years old, was remembered and cherished at a celebration of life at the Community Concert Hall at FLC on Saturday.
About 200 community members, dressed modestly in vests, suit jackets and button-ups, attended the remembrance ceremony.
Friends and colleagues told fond stories of Smith and Summit Church Rev. Jeff Huber led guests in prayers and hymns.
The respect on display for Smith would be difficult to overstate. Speakers frequently referenced his legacy of over 50 years at FLC, his love of history, his devout Christian faith, his healthy sense of humor and his enthusiastic appreciation of the Chicago Cubs.
The Colorado House of Representatives acknowledged Smith’s passing with a tribute and condolences read by former Rep. Barbara McLaughlin.
“The Colorado House of Representatives mourns the loss of Duane Smith and extends condolences and recognition to his family and friends,” she said, reading the tribute. “… He came to be recognized as an extraordinary historian by his peers, and with an unmatched passion for Colorado history, Duane was a nationally … author with an outstanding work ethic who excelled at simplifying complex historical events, making them accessible and engaging for general audiences.”
The House tribute ended by acknowledging Smith’s “incredible life and legacy” and said he will be remembered for everything he has done for Colorado.
Longtime friend Al Harper said Smith was always happy and possessed “a great ability for forgiveness.”
Harper said Smith once asked him to edit a book he was working on. Harper was perplexed.
When he asked Smith why he had any business editing copy, Smith replied, “‘Because history continues to live, and you have the great blessing to work on a railroad that I love, that I know a lot about,’” Harper said. “And he said, ‘I want to make sure your input and your feelings about the greatness of the railroad is in that book.’”
Harper said history meant a lot to both of them because the good and the bad of the past are a roadmap to the future, which Smith understood and lived for sharing that roadmap with thousands of students throughout his storied teaching career.
Ron Brown, Smith’s friend and peer, said Smith was his mentor, co-author and companion on “fearless and sometimes frivolous journeys.”
He said he first met Smith in the University of Illinois’ geography library, where he had found Smith’s book and University of Colorado Boulder dissertation called “Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier,” published in 1967.
Smith was wearing jeans, boots, a Chicago Cubs belt buckle and a long-sleeved shirt, and he was rocking a flattop haircut, Brown said.
He said for over 40 years, Smith started every baseball season optimistic about the Chicago Cubs’ chances at taking the baseball World Series; come every October, without fail, that optimism had vanished.
But Smith believed in the “resurrection,” Brown said. Finally, in 2016, after 108 years, the resurrection arrived and the Cubs won the World Series.
Scott Foster, who studied under Smith from April 1991 to April 1995 and would become his friend, recalled the night the Cubs took the World Series. Remembering his former professor’s fondness for the Cubs and, despite his better judgment, called Smith at 11:30 the same night.
Not only was Smith, 79 years old at the time, awake so late in the evening in the middle of a school week, he was still celebrating, Foster said.
He said his love of history was inspiring, and without Smith’s mentorship, Foster would not be who he is today.
Foster recalled an old American mining phrase Smith taught him in his college days. Miners, setting explosives to blow up large rocks and ore deposits, would say, “Tap ’er light” as a word of caution against mishandling the explosives and setting them off prematurely.
The phrase, he explained, became a slang expression for taking care and bidding loved ones farewell.
“I love Dr. Smith more than I think I’ll ever be able to express adequately in words,” he said. “To use a phrase I’ve heard often, but it’s so true as it relates to the importance and the legacy of Dr. Smith and his impact on my life: Without him, there would be no me. Tap ’er light, Dr. Smith. Tap ’er light.”
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(UCA News) — Faith leaders, academics, and rights activists have expressed concern over legislation and restrictions in Japan against religious entities following former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination, which they warn could threaten “all religions.”
Some 31 global leaders in the field of freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) issued a joint statement on Dec 31 titled “A Religious Liberty Crisis in Japan,” Bitter Winter reported.
“Various forces are using this [Abe’s] assassination to begin dismantling key human rights of religious believers in the democratic nation of Japan,” the statement said.
“We believe that the strong emotions generated by the Abe assassination, understandable though they may be, should not lead to legislation, administrative, or legal actions that violate human rights in Japan,” the signatories said.
“A democracy should not arbitrarily harm the right of any religion to operate freely, collect donations, and transmit its faith and moral values to the next generation,” they added.
Tetsuya Yamagami shot and killed Abe on July 8, 2022, over his ties to the Unification Church.
Yamagami said his family faced economic hardship due to hefty donations made by his mother to the church, which was estimated to be around US$1 million.
The signatories alleged that the donations from the Yamagami family were returned in 2009 as part of a mutually agreed settlement, which is “less mentioned in the media.”
They also pointed out that Tetsuya was never a member of the Unification Church and “had in fact signed a statement accepting the settlement.”
Following Abe’s assassination, there was a “sudden resurgence of old and largely politically motivated campaigns against the Unification Church,” the statement said.
“These efforts, relying on the populist but unscientific term ‘cult’ also targeted other groups, including religions such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses,” they said.
The signatories said that the sale of articles at exorbitant prices — called “Spiritual Sales — was carried out by a company whose members were part of the Unification Church and had ceased by the time of Abe’s assassination.
The signatories also said that only the negative claims of second-generation Unification Church members were heard, who alleged that they “were not provided with good educational opportunities,” by the media and politicians.
The media and politicians were “ignoring the thousands who grew up happily in new religious movements and gladly remained there,” Bitter Winter said citing the statement.
The signatories said three legal measures that threaten all religions, “not the [Unification Church] alone, and not new religious movements alone,” were enacted in Japan.
The first measure includes provisions for the dissolution of a religious corporation, which the signatories said was revised to enable the disbanding of religious groups if they “lost some civil cases.”
The previous version of the law was interpreted to permit dissolution only if religious corporations were found guilty of major crimes.
“If this minimalist basis for dissolution is upheld by the courts, then no religion will be safe from dissolution,” the signatories warned.
Secondly, the signatories said that new provisions were introduced limiting the possibility for “controversial” organizations to solicit donations and made it easier for those who had donated to such movements, or their heirs and relatives, to get their money back.
Thirdly, the signatories expressed concern about guidelines in the form of questions and answers on the deprivation of second-generation members of “controversial” religious movements and the so-called “religious abuse of children.”
The signatories alleged that, “several provisions of the guidelines have nothing to do with the Unification Church and target the Jehovah’s Witnesses and other conservative Christian groups.”
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Find out which of the show’s stars have been married more than once or have found their happily ever after!
The Pearson’s are a tight-knit family on-screen, but behind the scenes, the This Is Us stars have their own sweet families in real life. From Mandy Moore to Milo Ventimiglia, the stars of the series have adorable relationships off-screen that you’ll be just as obsessed with as you were with Jack and Rebecca. See which of your favorite This Is Us stars are married or dating!

Although Mandy Moore’s This Is Us character Rebecca had a fulfilling marriage, the star’s first real union was not so sweet. Mandy Moore’s marriage to rocker Ryan Adams was what she has called “psychologically abusive.”
“His controlling behavior essentially did block my ability to make new connections in the industry during a very pivotal and potentially lucrative time — my entire mid-to-late 20s,” Moore shared in an interview.
Moore and Adams were married in 2009, after they began dating in 2007. But after a tumultuous marriage, the couple split up and divorced in 2016.
“It’s so weird because I think back to that chapter and it almost feels like it was someone else entirely that it happened to, because I’m in such a different place in my life,” Moore explained.

Mandy Moore did eventually find her happy ending with Taylor Goldsmith. The couple first connected back in 2015 after Moore praised Goldsmith’s band, Dawes, on Instagram. The singer saw the post, reached out and the rest is history.
After two years of dating, the couple got engaged in 2017, news that was broken by This Is Us co-stars Jon Huertas and Chris Sullivan. 
“She just sent out an alert over our family text chain, so I can’t wait to hear about it,” Sullivan said in an interview. “She just sent a photo and just wanted us all to know that this just happened, and so then we went on a response spree for about a day and a half.”
Moore and Goldsmith tied the knot in November 2018. They welcomed their first child, son Gus, in 2021, followed by son Oscar in 2022 and daughter Louise in 2024. 
“I feel incredibly understood and supported,” Moore shared. “I feel incredibly lucky to have somebody who is like, ‘I got your back.’ I found the right person and I feel like we can handle anything together.” 

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Milo Ventimiglia, who famously portrays Jack Pearson, secretly tied the knot with wife Jarah Mariano in early 2023.
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While initially keeping photos of their wedding private, Mariano shared some on Instagram in September 2024. She also recently announced they are expecting their first child together
Before This Is Us premiered, Chrissy Metz, who portrayed Kate Pearson, was married to Martyn Eaden. The couple met in 2006 through an online dating site while Metz lived in Los Angeles and Eaden lived in England. The couple got engaged a year into the relationship and married in a small wedding. Metz and Eaden eventually divorced in 2015. 

Sterling K. Brown (Randall Pearson) and wife Ryan first met and began dating in college in the late 1990s. The couple did break up for about three years, but eventually made their way back to each other. Brown and Bathe first eloped in 2006 and had a larger celebration in 2007. In 2011, the couple welcomed their first child, son Andrew, followed by their son Amaré in 2015.

Justin Hartley, a.k.a. Kevin Pearson, met his first wife, Lindsay Korman (Hartley), on the set of Passions and got engaged after only six months of dating. The couple tied the knot in 2004, welcoming their daughter Isabella just a few months later. Hartley and Korman later filed for divorce in 2012.

Hartley and Chrishell Stause first met in 2013 after being introduced through a mutual friend. By 2016, the couple got engaged, tying the knot in late 2017.
“At the risk of sounding cheesy, I look forward to sharing life experiences and growing old together,” Hartley shared. “Someday we can talk about all the things we did together 30 years ago!”
The couple eventually filed for divorce in 2019 and Stause later revealed Hartley ended things over text message. Yikes!

Hartley’s current wife, Sofia Pernas, was previously his co-star on The Young and the Restless from 2015 to 2016. They reconnected in 2020 and married in 2021. Their vows took place in their pool, but later they had a small wedding with family and friends.
“I feel loved, and I feel appreciated. I know she feels the same way,” Hartley shared. “We just have a really great relationship and a really terrific family. It’s healthy and it’s wonderful”

The This Is Us star who portrays Toby, Chris Sullivan, married his wife, film producer Rachel, in 2010. After 10 years of marriage, the couple announced that their first child, son Bear, was born. In 2022, the Sullivans welcomed daughter Aoife Bea.
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Jesus didn't come so we could have a cozy mid-winter party with our families, exchange gifts, and drink cocoa – as much as I love all of that.
Is it odd that the Church selected December 26 as the day to celebrate Stephen, the first person to be martyred for his faith? I mean, really – the day after Christmas?
How that came to be, I couldn’t say. But as I think about it, I must say I think it is a good selection. Why?
Because Jesus didn’t come so we could have a cozy mid-winter party with our families, exchange gifts, and drink cocoa – as much as I love all of that. No. He came to save the world, at the cost of his own life. And this young man Stephen was so full of joy in his new life in Christ that he dared to speak the truth to the religious leaders and it cost him his life, just as it cost Jesus his. (Read his story in Acts chapters 6 and 7). And he went to his death joyfully, knowing the best was yet to come.
Let’s remember, as we are admiring our gifts and putting away the wrapping paper, that Jesus invites us to live fully for him, too. Let’s remember that the baby in the manger became the man on the cross – all out of unconditional love.
So, come! Let us adore him! Christ the Lord!
Besides serving as pastor at Caledonia Congregational Church, Gary Schwerin is the Spiritual Development Minister for the YMCA of the Rock River Valley and Executive Director of Bridge Ministries of Rockford. Prior to launching Bridge Ministries, Gary spent many years in leadership with Young Life. His columns appear here every Sunday – to see them all, subscribe to our daily email.
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