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The flood tide of illegal immigrants crossing our southern border cannot and must not continue. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has said of it, “The...

Sometimes, during my drive to work, I listen to Clarence Maurice Mitchell IV, host of the Baltimore’s WBAL C4 radio show. Mitchell was formerly...

Which of the two dozen or so Democratic presidential candidates is going to carry black voters next year? The answer to that question is...

Without nary a question, my work life is much easier than that of my parents and grandparents who all worked by the sweat of...

OK, here it is: I really like small towns. I was born in and spent the first 18 years of my life in a...

I am sure you have seen in media headlines that the Georgia State Senate has passed the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act,...

You’d have thought I’d learned my lesson about downsizing by now. When I left my previous church almost 23 years ago, I gave away...

Growing up on that old familiar street not so far away was truly a magical time. And for one week out of each of...

The Wall Street Journal recently (3/16/2019) printed a letter-to-the-editor in which Upland, California psychiatrist/psychoanalyst Charlene Moskovitz promotes the alleged benefits of medication and psychotherapy...

My mother and her parents emigrated from Scotland to Detroit in 1923. I first lived with my parents and two older siblings in an...

When I was growing up, especially as a teenager, people would often say, “It must be hard being a preacher’s kid.” It could be difficult...

In February I began sharing with you about the recent reality of my pending retirement as the Senior Pastor here at Prince of Peace...

OPINION — Quiz: Name the five villages of Peachtree City. The answers — and some questions — follow. Let’s disclose my biases at the start....

I was bullied from the third grade through my senior year of high school. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Some of those years weren’t...

On March 15, 2019, I traveled to Bel Air, Maryland, to participate in the consecration of Robert Scott Northwood as a bishop in Christ’s...

Count slowly backwards — to where it all began. Back to a vacant lot a long, long time ago on that old familiar street...

To the many readers who recently asked: Yes, I do take requests, and yes, I will riff on the Perpetually Beautiful People Who Laid...

Of 895 slots in the freshman class of Stuyvesant High in New York City, seven were offered this year to black students, down from...

Many years ago, I was visiting an elderly woman in a nursing home. I did not know her well but I knew she was...

Have you seen the poster of the frazzled kitty barely hanging onto the branch by the tip of his claws? The caption? “Hang in...

Get ready for a steady stream of news the next few months about budgets for Peachtree City, Fayetteville and the Fayette County School System....

One can only hope. Apparently there is a move afoot to do away with Daylight Savings Time as we know it. At least 24...

All of our efforts to stop it had failed. Bruised, beaten and bleeding, my three brothers and I could only watch in horror as...

“So, what do you think of attachment parenting?” My inquisitor was a 30-something mom. I sensed she was testing me, trying to determine whether I...

On March 7, the General Assembly hit our first deadline of the legislative session with Crossover Day. By this day, all bills that originated...

One of the rotten fruits produced by what passes for today’s American education system is the ignorance some young people have about socialism. According to...

Crazy times give rise to crazy notions, e.g., that socialism’s the ticket for modern America. Well, you know, maybe not socialism of the sort that...

It started out as the neighborly thing to do. Up the road from the Ponderosa lives Doug and his family. We have known each other...

DEAR FATHER PAUL:  There seems to be a lot of controversy and misinformation today about the safety of common vaccines, especially those for children....

“Hubris” is defined as “excessive pride or self-confidence.” Synonyms include: arrogance, conceitedness, haughtiness, pride, vanity, self-importance, self-conceit, pomposity, superciliousness, feeling of superiority ... well,...

A recent event had me remembering a childhood story I’d forgotten, and with good reasons. It was a traumatic event for both my dad...

Question: My 5-year-old has had eating issues since he was an infant. When I introduced solid food at six months, he began rejecting most...

Hoping for a knockout blow to battered, bedraggled remnants of the Confederate army, the starched and ready ranks of... Hold on. If memory serves, the...

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) comment that the influence of the Israeli lobby in Washington pushes lawmakers to take a pledge of “allegiance to a...