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Charles Biggs

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I have a special privilege that cannot be diminished

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I admit that I grew up under privilege. No, it wasn’t because my family had wealth. We didn’t. My Father, the late Harley Biggs, Sr., was a barber who took home about $100 a week back in the 1960s in Tulsa. My mother passed away in 1959 and Dad had to raise five young boys…

Some of the best vacations are just not that complicated

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When I was a kid, we didn’t have much money and so we never took a real summer vacation. Sometimes, usually on the Fourth of July or over the Labor Day weekend, we would drive over to Conway, Arkansas, to visit family members and go crappie fishing. When Susan and I started having kids, we…

It’s hard to keep up with all the church name changes

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There is a trend across America for churches to change their names. There are probably a lot of good reasons for this. Churches that have been around for decades may have had a turnover in the congregation and a new name would be more reflective of the new parishioners. Other churches may have moved to…

Several states are battling abortion but not Oklahoma

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Can we abolish abortion in America? The answer is yes. The State of Missouri is in a court battle to close the last remaining abortion clinic in that state, a clinic run by Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion machine in America. At issue was a state license that expired May 31. Losing the license would…

BabylonBee.com is chock full of clean, Christian comedy

Tulsa Beacon

I discovered The Onion back when it only had a printed edition. The satirical website can be really funny but it frequently strays from good taste (profanity and sexual innuendo), so I don’t read it anymore and I can’t recommend it to my friends or readers. There is an alternative. It’s www.babylonbee.com. The Babylon Bee…

It’s difficult to order anything but pancakes at IHOP

Tulsa Beacon

One of the hardest parts of trying to lose weight is going out to eat. I went to IHOP with some friends for breakfast awhile back and the menu was a challenge. Everything on the menu – except pancakes or waffles – had a side order of pancakes. I love pancakes. I really like Belgium…

To avoid traffic jams and parking, don’t go downtown

Tulsa Beacon

The biggest adventure awaiting Tulsans headed to Downtown is how to get there. Apart from side streets, there are three basic routes to get to Downtown from South Tulsa. Those are Riverside Drive, the Broken Arrow Expressway and the Crosstown Expressway (I-244). For several years, the city completely blocked Riverside Drive to build a park…

Biden wants a ‘straight’ America but Obama doesn’t

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Joe Biden says he wants to make America “straight” again. If that’s true, he is just the opposite of Barack Obama who wanted to push homosexuality. That’s what Biden said on April 25, the day after he announced he was running for president. Biden said, “America is coming back like we used to be: ethical,…

The Nathan Hale prom in 1972 was a great occasion

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Forty-seven years ago, I was an excited 18-year-old senior at Nathan Hale High School. The big news was that I was about to graduate and earn my high school diploma. That set the stage for my entrance into Tulsa Junior College (now Tulsa Community College) in the fall and a year later a transfer to…