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Vote for Tim Harris for Tulsa School Board Feb. 8th

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If you want to improve public education in Tulsa, vote for Tim Harris in District 7 of the Tulsa School District on February 8. Most people know him from his long tenure as Tulsa County District Attorney. He retired but he didn’t retire from wanting to serve the public. Harris has taught law at Oral…

It’s amazing to see God weave through our circumstances

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For years, people have asked me if they can download my sermons, teachings or lessons. To be honest with you, I don’t like to hear myself talk. I am dyslexic in my writing, and my speaking reflects it even more. I cringe when I hear myself butchering the English language; I come away embarrassed. If…

Now is not a good time to make a Tulsa hospital visit

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On January 13, I spent 12 hours in the waiting room of a Tulsa hospital’s emergency room. Several days prior to January 13, I was sick. I thought I had the flu because someone in my family had it and I was having similar symptoms. I asked Jeff Brucculeri to fill in for my on…

I am challenged to be an evangelist like the shoe evangelist

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Several years ago I had to fly to Tampa to tape a television show. After I finished, I had the joy of meeting up with two of our missionary alumni. We decided to meet at the food court at a mall located near the airport. The luncheon was at 1:00, and I was finished taping…

Those who came before us had a deep impact on our lives

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] To most people, the history of Oklahoma and Indian Territory began at the atrocity called the Trail of Tears. As we have seen there was a huge history for the southeastern Indians, before crossing the Mississippi. We recently saw a new western chief, who will…

The Chinese virus has taught us who we cannot trust

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After two years of battling the Chinese coronavirus, what have we learned? As of January 11, there have been 769,662 confirmed cases in Oklahoma with an estimated 12,666 deaths. There’s overwhelming evidence that the virus came from a Wuhan, China, lab and was engineered via gain-of-function research and was financed by American funding. If you…

An abrupt ending is followed by the new Back 40 Ministries

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You might have noticed that the headings on my articles have been blank for a few weeks; I have been in transition. The year 2021 ended in a struggle for me. The ministry I started 28 years ago voted me out and gave me a short time to move out of my office. It was…

The actual cost of ‘build back better’

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Despite failing to garner enough votes in the Senate to send their multi-trillion-dollar social spending bill to the president’s desk, Democrats and President Joe Biden have signaled they plan to regroup and attempt to push another version of it forward this year. This is a sad way to govern our country, especially considering that the…

History is not sequential, but many parallel ventures

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[Why our area has its unique political and religious attitudes.] To most people, the history of Oklahoma and Indian Territory began at the atrocity called the Trail of Tears. We have traced the Cherokee to 1824 in previous columns, which brought the early groups to the location of the original Dwight Mission near Petit Jean…

Beacon lineup of syndicated columnists keeps changing

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When we started the Tulsa Beacon in 2001, we wanted our editorial pages to have conservative columnists. We went to Creators Syndicate and picked out four columnists: David Limbaugh, Robert Novak, Mona Charen and Walter Williams. Former Gov. Frank Keating back then told me that if he were to pick a set of columnists, he…