‘A great, joyful sense of closure’
MEMPHIS, TENN. — Before the preacher stepped to the pulpit, the crowd seated in wooden pews at Harding School of Theology stood to sing. The hymn…
Archive: May 2024
‘Just a passing thru’
RICHARDSON, TEXAS — I blame Jim Henson! After all, he’s the one who fashioned those sardonic Muppets I started morphing into several years ago. You…
Sooners to leaders
OKLAHOMA CITY — When asked how he liked the new venue for this year’s Lads to Leaders convention, Caleb Clabaugh hesitated … just a bit.…
Nancy French’s ‘Ghosted’ offers a haunting, helpful read — but not for everyone
The biggest villain — and rightly so — in Nancy French’s memoir “Ghosted: An American Story” is a preacher who gives the seventh-grader a ride home from…
What’s really going on at the Texas Rangers game
ARLINGTON, TEXAS — Fishing is about more than fishing. That was the gist of a Top 10 country song released in 2011. Trace Adkins’ “Just…
Surfing for souls in Madagascar
Madagascar, the world’s fourth-largest island, is renowned for its beautiful avenues of baobab trees and its most famous, wide-eyed resident, the ring-tailed lemur. The island,…
‘All I could see was destruction’
SULPHUR, OKLA. — After a monster tornado hit this southern Oklahoma town late Saturday night, the Vinita Avenue Church of Christ swung into action. With power…
