Where were you when the world stopped turning seems almost like a cliché these days. But with the anniversary of what most would agree was the worst day in the history of the United States coming tomorrow, it is a thought provoking question. Time passes and things change, people leave us and new l...

Taxes. Wars have been fought over them, and this country even fought for its independence over what our forefathers deemed as unfair taxation. To the property owner anywhere, another tax on his land, his home, is just another burden on his back. But, ask a young person who graduates from high school...

Sometimes, even when you are tired in body, God can lift you up on the mountain and make you want to shout Glory.  Sunday morning in church at Tapp UMC, I wanted to shout like my father in law used to do as we heard about the work of God, the very essence of Christianity, being done by a group of yo...

Today, a whole nation stopped what they were doing, and as a nation, at the same time, fell silent and motionless to observe the most horrific event i...

This past Sunday morning, sitting in my new church home, I was moved. It wasn’t the words to a sermon, though my pastor Tommy Earl Burton brought a gr...

Last week, my twin sister thought she’d get the copperhead’s attention (at my mom’s house), so she used the shovel to whack him into pieces—then, she ...