Columns/Opinions
November 9, 2021
More old stuff this week and next week. Hope you enjoy.
Columns/Opinions
November 9, 2021
Tomorrow, November 11th, is Veterans Day – a time to pause and honor our veterans, both those who have gone on before and those still with us. Several events have been planned to honor veterans of LaSalle Parish in recognition of Veterans Day, which will be tomorrow, Thursday, November 11, 2021. Due...
Columns/Opinions
November 9, 2021
I was disappointed to see the term “white protestant work ethic” in print on the Editorial page in the November 3 Jena Times. I know a lot of people who are not white, and who are not protestant, but who have an excellent work ethic. It’s not a matter “political correctness”, it’s a matter of human ...
Columns/Opinions
November 9, 2021
Superstitions and sports go hand in hand. Anybody that has ever played an organized sport of any kind knows this is true. From baseball players to hoc...
Columns/Opinions
November 9, 2021
70 Years Ago November 8, 1951 Rev. and Mrs. J. P. Owens observed their fourth anniversary with the First Baptist Church Sunday when they held Open Hou...
Columns/Opinions
November 2, 2021
What a way to start off the day. I woke up this morning and stagger down into the kitchen to make my first cup of coffee. Now the general rule is don’...
Columns/Opinions
He was late for church and slipped quietly into his regular place for Sunday morning worship. He listened as the pastor prayed: “We have left undone those things we ought to have done, and we have done those things we ought not to have done.” After a moment of silence he continued, “You know, Lord, I believe I’ve found my kind of people. I belong here.”
November 2, 2021
He was late for church and slipped quietly into his regular place for Sunday morning worship. He listened as the pastor prayed: “We have left undone t...
Columns/Opinions
November 2, 2021
As noted in last week’s Jena Times, the cultural push for woke-ism and racial equality through the controversial Critical Race Theory doctrine has mad...
Columns/Opinions
November 2, 2021
When I was growing up out on the rural route, falling leaves, southbound geese calling from the skies overhead, me trading short pants and tee shirts...
Columns/Opinions
November 2, 2021
Despite the fact that the Vikings had settlements in the New World five hundred years before Columbus came; despite the fact that the Spanish and Fren...
