OKLAHOMA CITY – I hope your Labor Day weekend was full of relaxation. I schedule a vacation each year with friends to get away over this holiday which allows me to “charge up the batteries” for upcomi...

“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy” is one of my favorite quotes from a Founding Father and one that I use whenever I teach about the Constitution. The quote by our most underr...

Now is not the time to sit back when there are so many reasons why people need to step up. Stop for just a moment from your busy schedule and really take a good look around. What do you see? Do you se...

Jesus ends His Sermon on the Mount—His longest sermon—with a challenge: are we just listening to His words, or are we living them out? With fall football in the air and summer fading, are we faithful ...

On Sunday, August 31, Rev. Therese Starr delivered a message that spoke to the heart of Christian discipleship: humility, generosity, and radical welcome. Drawing on Sirach 10:12–18, Psalm 112, Hebrew...

Faith isn’t real if you never put it to work. Is your Christian faith real, practical, demonstrable, and useful? Or is your faith theoretical and untested? Faith is not just something we think, but so...

Life has a way of breaking us all. Often we feel like we have been thrown to the wolves and have to fight for our place in this world and possibly for our very existence. Every day, whether animal or ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Interim study season at the Oklahoma State Capitol is kicking off this week, and the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) is not only monitoring several, but we are engaging wi...

How many are surprised to know that this summer marked the 75th anniversary of the start of a war that claimed the lives of more than 36,000 Americans? If this had been a major anniversary of the Amer...

There is a great story about Samuel in 1 Samuel 3. Samuel is a young boy dedicated to serve God and one night he hears someone calling his voice. He realizes after several attempts that it is God that...

On August 24, during the 11th Sunday after Pentecost, Rev. Therese Starr shared a heartfelt message at Trinity Episcopal, reflecting on Luke 13:10–17, where Jesus heals a woman bent over for eighteen ...

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) With these familiar words, Jesus paints prayer as an active, ongoing pursuit. He not only...

By the end of this year I’ll turn 57, which to some is still “a young whippersnapper” but to others I’m “old as dirt.” To me it’s hard to believe how quickly the years seem to fly by now. Having recen...

OKLAHOMA CITY – On Saturday, Aug. 9, the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) partnered with the Foster Care Association of Oklahoma (FCAO) to hold a backto- school bash for more than 350 fost...

President Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill has proven to be one of the most contentious bills in recent memory. At the heart of the debate is who the OBBB benefits. While the left claims the bill is si...

Rev. Therese Starr’s sermon centered on the challenging lectionary texts from Jeremiah, Hebrews, and Luke, passages that spoke not of comfort but of fire, division, suffering, and endurance. She ackno...

In recent years a famous Pastor stated that we need to “unhitch” from the Old Testament. Is the Old Testament still of value to New Testament Christians? The answer is a resounding “yes!” God’s word i...

In Matthrew 7:1-5, Jesus issues a warning we love to quote and rarely want to obey: “Judge not, that you be not judged.” He’s not banning discernment; He’s banning a condemning spirit. The heart of Hi...

Overall 40 percent of us are left-eared, 30 percent are left-eyed and 20 percent are left-footed, but only 10 percent of us are left-handed. I have the privilege of being all of these, so I’m an extre...

OKLAHOMA CITY – A few weeks ago, I highlighted the interim studies approved by the state Senate. This week, I want to cover some from the House of Representatives. Interim studies are officially filed...