The first person I thought of when I heard that Prince Philip had died was Elizabeth, a Queen in the greater world but only and always a wife to the man who’d been by her side for longer than I’ve been alive.
We lost a good and eloquent man when Jonathan Sacks died in November of last year. Sacks was an Orthodox rabbi and served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013. He was later made a member of the House of Lords.
It’s springtime, and Texas politicians are getting all flirty, dreaming and scheming about what offices they’ll seek in 2022.
It’s been roughly a month since the statewide mask mandate was lifted and about three weeks since spring break for many East Texans, and the number of new cases of COVID-19 in our communities has remained a desirable trickle.
When we lost my nephew Jared to suicide six years ago this week, I became an instant expert.
These will govern
“Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.”
The reviews from community members about our county’s COVID-19 vaccine hub have been glowing — the process from start to finish simple and seamless.
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Marching across the land
“Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.”
Public attention has recently been focused on a wide variety of conspiracy theories ranging from the grotesque (cannibalism) to the anti-Semitic (Jews secretly starting fires) to the outright bizarre (lizard people)
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series on the dangers of imported drugs from China.
As parents of three teenage daughters, my wife and I expend a lot of our leisure time managing other people’s laundry. Because our children are at an age when I can no longer differentiate their underwear according to their favorite colors or cartoon characters, I often beckon them to join i…
Ironically, the year America celebrated its 200th birthday and independence from England, it was a British rock star who held the No. 1 spot on the American rock album charts for 10 weeks.
GUSHER: For the $125,000 grant from the Eastman Foundation to help continue operations at Gregg County's COVID-19 vaccine hub.
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“For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.”
After Democratic legislators in Georgia failed to stop a voter suppression bill in March, they were suddenly — and belatedly — joined by major corporations headquartered in Georgia, such as Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines.
We can be better
Gohmert’s revisionist history
“I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.”
SAN DIEGO — Judging from my inbox, there are those who want to drag me out of the opinion business and into the solutions industry.
GOP not going anywhere
Patient’s responsibility?
“ ... and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,’ and he was called a friend of God.”
Gonna get worse
The Pandemic of 2020 was a tragedy for the whole world.
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
During my wife’s spring break we drove once again to southern Ohio to visit her 94-year-old mother. All of us having been vaccinated, visiting her assisted living facility had become possible.
Art, pleasant weather and some walking brought people to downtown Longview on Thursday evening, but the chance to again be a community might have been the biggest draw.
Look who’s showing up in debates over voting and elections, opposing some of the leaders of a GOP that had a long and deserved reputation as the party of big business.
Border problems
“Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Brothers, what are we to do?’ Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins ...’ ”
The interstate that cuts through Longview and other cities in the region has brought economic development, easy access to Louisiana to the east and Dallas to the west and likely innumerable other benefits.
April Fools’ Day came and went at the Stallard house with zero acknowledgment, and part of me is a little sad about that.
Cleaning up the mess
At the Longview Chamber of Commerce, one of our top priorities is making sure that we are setting up kids for success in school so they can grow up to be the next generation of business owners, teachers, doctors, and community leaders. And we know that putting a child on that path to success…
The movie “Bonnie and Clyde” was released in 1967. It told the story of the infamous Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker (and their gang) and how they rampaged their way through Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri in the mid-1930s, robbing banks and murdering anyone who got in their way.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell to 684,000 in late March for the first time in a year. Believe it or not, that’s important.
“Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal.”
I was too small for football and too slow for track. I played catcher, but was a lousy hitter.
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Well, Georgia, that didn’t take long.
Religion and politics
What a mess
“I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us.”
SAN DIEGO — After just two short months in the White House, President Joe Biden has gone from the most empathetic person in politics to someone whose political instincts leave little room for empathy.
GUSHER: For the appointment of Longview Chief J.P. Steelman as chairman of the Texas Commission on Fire Protection.
A wish for better internet service
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.”
Isaiah 26:3-4
