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Letter: Virtual Charter Academy

Tulsa Beacon

We enrolled our children at Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy 12 years ago (OVCA)! We made the switch to virtual school when our eldest daughter was diagnosed with a lung condition leaving her immunocompromised. OVCA turned out to be the best decision we’ve made for our children’s education. Each of our children have competed nationally in…

Letter: Uplifting Bush funeral

Tulsa Beacon

My wife and I watched every minute of the ceremonies commemorating the life and passing of our 41st President.  It was a beautiful tribute, and it gave the whole world a more personal and intimate view of the man himself. It was an emotional, deeply moving experience, and one of enlightenment.  Looking back over the…

Editorial: Sen. Joseph Silk is a true hero

Tulsa Beacon

Enough unborn babies have died in Oklahoma. State Sen. Joseph Silk, a hero in the truest sense of the word, has introduced a bill in the Oklahoma Legislature to criminalize abortion by placing it in the state statues on felony homicide. Senate Bill 13, the Abolition of Abortion in Oklahoma Act, would make abortion a…

Editorial: Kudos to the Big 12 Champions

Tulsa Beacon

Congratulations to Coach Lincoln Riley and the Oklahoma Sooner football team for winning the Big 12 Conference Championship and gaining a spot in the four-team College Football Playoff. The No. 4 Sooners face No. 1 Alabama in the Orange Bowl in Florida on December 29. Oklahoma took Georgia to overtime last year in a CFP…

Editorial: To Starbucks: stop pornography

Tulsa Beacon

The jury is out on whether or not Starbucks will keep a pledge it made in November to block Wi-Fi pornography from its 29,000 coffee shots in America by 2019. Internet safety advocate Enough Is Enough (EIE) is calling on Starbucks to keep that pledge. “We will continue to engage the media to keep the…

Letter: During an earthquake, Alaskans: Shaken but not stirred

Tulsa Beacon

I made a quick phone call after a friend texted that Anchorage had just been hit by a major earthquake. The adoptive mother of our grandchild answered the phone. “Is everyone okay?” I asked. “Yes,” she calmly replied. “Paul was driving to daycare and thought the wheels were falling off his truck,” she added with…

Letter: Rewriting Tulsa’s racial history?

Tulsa Beacon

There was a race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921.  According to the Oklahoma Historical Society, Tulsa was a deeply troubled town at that time.  Crime rates were extremely high, and the city had been plagued by vigilantism.  In August of 1920, a white mob lynched a black teenager accused of murder, and newspaper accounts…

Letter: We need more Biblical knowledge

Tulsa Beacon

Randy Bright’s opinion article in Nov. 29, 2018 Tulsa Beacon addresses a topic I too have thought about often over the years. “Corporate biblical knowledge is at risk.”  I often read Walker Moore’s column since he focuses on his family often telling autobiographical non-fiction stories.  Years ago one of my sons went on a couple…

Letter: America needs to fund the wall

Tulsa Beacon

The picture of thousands of invaders trying to forcefully get into America is frightful.  Especially to those living along the border with Mexico.  For years, many have had their homes invaded, by much smaller groups than the present-day caravans.  Caravan of immigrants invading America is a new type of threat to this country.   The Liberal’s…

Editorial: It’s time to repeal Roe v. Wade

Tulsa Beacon

The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and allies want the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse its landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. According to a brief filed November 15, the Supreme Court could review a lower court ruling that banned discrimination against certain classes of unborn children according to sex, race,…