Over a year ago, my colleague Matthew – pastor of the church I served from 2001-05 – contacted me about preaching at homecoming.

“Banned Books Week” is next week.

Today’s outcry over “book banning” doesn’t flow from actual threats to freedom of speech; book bans don’t exist in America anymore.

When I was a child, I was always asking questions. I asked so many questions that my dad, like many parents, would get tired of it.

Some areas of our local mountains have names that sound strange to some folks and are often mispronounced, causing certain places to wind up with different names – or at least different spellings.<

Have you ever traveled on a southern road and saw three mysterious, tall, colored crosses on the side of the highway?

Sept. 17 is Constitution Day. It’s a great time to reread our Constitution and remember the freedoms we enjoy and the responsibilities of our political leaders.

As a person grows older, do they get more religious?

My 4-year anniversary over The Graham Star came and went without a single thread of recognition: no candle, no cake, not even an “attaboy.”

I recently wrote a column about a 1974 fire detail in Utah and meeting a Romanian shepherd (“Summer with a Shepherd,” Aug. 24).

An article written by Adrianna Rodriguez appeared on the front page of the Aug. 21 edition of USA Today, about sending kids back to school.