Columns

Life was safer when Apples and Blackberries were just pies

January 31, 2019 Walker Moore

Life was much easier when Apple and Blackberry were only pies. I was training a group of adults whose job is to mentor parents. One of the subjects in which they wanted more training was how to help parents manage their children’s cell phones. Cell phones are being given to children at younger and younger…

The only constant about climate is change

January 31, 2019 Tom Harris Jay Lehr

“Climate is changing, there’s no question about it,” Idaho’s new Republican Governor Brad Little said recently at the Idaho Environmental Forum. “…We’ve just got to figure out how we’re going to cope with it. And we’ve got to slow it down. Now, reversing it is going to be a big darn job.” According to The…

NFL is ‘not for long’ for some players with Oklahoma ties

January 17, 2019 Charles Biggs

I used to be a big Dallas Cowboy fan but I have lost interest. It’s not that I don’t root for Dallas, it’s just that they don’t have any players that draw my interest. I loved to watch former Dallas quarterback Tony Romo. He was an escape artist and he was deadly accurate with his…

The new leader of Brazil may be a sign of better conditions

January 17, 2019 Robert McDowell

While we who revere the rule of law in the United States seem faced with seemingly insurmountable obstacles facing PRESDT-45 in his crusade to “drain the swamp” and return government to proper conduct and direction, there seems to have been some hopeful signs brewing south of the Panama Canal which have been carefully kept behind…

A mother’s kiss has an incredible ability to offer compassion

January 17, 2019 Walker Moore

It was our second day in Budapest. Our team had spent the first day getting over jet lag and acquainting ourselves with our new surroundings. This morning, we were to start working with a group of church planters about an hour south of the city. Our teams always travel with a 75-pound public address system…

Hysteria is based on computer guessing

January 17, 2019 Tom Harris Jay Lehr

For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom and gloom. They tell us that the end of the world as we know it is nigh as a result of carbon dioxide emitted into the air by the burning of fossil fuels. They are exercising…

We had smooth sailing on a Carnival Christmas cruise

January 10, 2019 Charles Biggs

Taking an ocean cruise is like being rich for seven days. In December, we booked passage on Carnival’s Vista and set sail out of Galveston, Texas, with destinations in Honduras, Belize and Cozumel, Mexico. We took our two sons and daughter-in-law. Our daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter couldn’t join us due to his starting a new…

Energy innovation can come without government funding

January 10, 2019 Robert McDowell

The headline of a story in the December 9 issue of the daily news(?)paper immediately caught my eye so it had to be read. The headline read, “Sails make a comeback as shipping tries to go green,” and carried the byline of Kelvin Chan of Associated Press. As all too often happens, the headline was…

Despite hiccups, have a happy New Year!

January 10, 2019 Walker Moore

Our Christmas and New Year’s Day can best be summed up with the words of Roberts Burn in his poem, To a Mouse: “The best-laid plans of Mice and Men go oft awry.” I think the mice made out better than we did. Our family had planned to gather on Christmas Eve, enjoy a meal,…

A look back at my previous January prediction columns

January 3, 2019 Charles Biggs

Here are some of my past predictions and New Year’s resolutions. In January of 2011 I wrote: Here are my New Year resolutions. I will pray for my son Brian every day, especially when he deploys to Afghanistan with the Oklahoma National Guard. I will try to buy fewer products made in China. I will…