As I place my left foot down, I felt a sharp pain in my heal. I knew I had made a big mistake. As I jerked my foot up, I lost my balance and fell and hit a tree and scraped my arm and blood was everywhere. I was in a mess. Lisa and I live in an area of the state that is infested with poison ivy. Out...

A reader recently wrote and asked a question that many of us ask at one time or another: “If there is a God, and if He is a good and loving God, why does He allow sin and suffering?” A simple answer is that God gave each of us the opportunity and responsibility to make and live with the consequences...

It is something that we did not want to do…especially so soon after purchasing The Jena Times. Nonetheless, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is forcing us and many other newspapers to increase subscription rates despite our utmost objections. Since we purchased the paper on March 28, the resp...

It’s difficult to overstate what a tremendous natural economic asset a river can be, and the Red River is no exception. As we know, in 1832, Capt. Hen...

I need to give a note of clarification. This article is one that I wrote in June of 2013. I recently came home from a three day stay in the Glenwood H...

After nearly forty-five years as a pastor, I have come to some indisputable truths. One, there has been a lot of change in that period. The second is ...