Viewpoints

For the next several columns I’m going to do vacation getaways. If you are anything like my family, a long awaited vacation, after a year of being trapped at...

The small church will unknowingly suffer great persecution at the hands of the Roman government in just a few short years after Paul delivers his message. Ro...

I don’t know what your lunch plans are for Sunday, Faithful Reader, but I have an idea for you. You need a burger. More specifically, you need a burger that ...

For 185 years, Arkansas has been a state. While Arkansans have long enjoyed their status as the twenty-fifth state, Arkansas had to jump over many political ...

Today is the first Monday of the month of June and we are almost halfway through the year! So much has already happened this year, yet we have so much more i...

Lately it seems Americans have decided that we must try to erase the recognition of anyone, who at any time in their life, was involved in any of what we con...

LORD, I know that people’s lives are not their own; it is not for them to direct their steps (Jer 10:23). Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not ...

So I talked to Cuz — that is, my cousin who shares in the Arkansas Travels I wrote about a few weeks ago — and he told me that I had his permission to reveal...

“Within my lifetime, we have gone from cranking telephones to interplanetary communications,” John Wesley Snyder marveled at his own life. His own life was a...

Today is Memorial Day, the federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died in the performance of their du...

Did you lose electrical power at your residence this past year?

One of the earliest political books I can remember reading was George Orwell’s satire, “Animal Farm.”

Have you heard about the bird? Sure! Everybody knows that the bird is the word!

One of the things you must expect with public office is public scrutiny. I have shared many times that I am not thin skinned, so I have learned not to take e...

When Vertis and I started talking about a long weekend getaway trip, several Mississippi towns became part of the conversation. We quickly narrowed it down, ...