A farmer up near Mason City was digging a coffin-sized hole behind his house a while back. His wife rushed up. It's for our banker. They got him psychiatric help. All over the state, it is happening, and has been happening, and few want to talk of it.
Neighbors avert their eyes.
But it isn't only suicide and murder or the threat of it. Less savage gods are loose here, too. Wife beating, alcoholism, child abuse. Is there a Moral Obligation to Save the Family Farm , ed. The Bible teaches us to love as we have been loved by Jesus.