OKLAHOMA CITY – After the events of the past week, I am just feeling drained and honestly experiencing a bit of despair. Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old political activist who had invigorated the conserva...

Every single day the world suffers from deliberate vandalism, disturbing violence and what I believe is a vacancy of the heart. This vacancy or state of emptiness that seems to affect so many is becau...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Tim Turner, R-Kinta, Friday issued the following statement after receiving word that the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control (OBN) K9 Interdiction Unit was na...

“The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Timothy 1:15). St. Paul wrote these words to Timothy with absolute certainty, and he knew t...

In the wake of Christian speaker and cultural commentator Charlie Kirk’s shocking assassination, our hearts are heavy. Charlie lived to “contend for the faith,” refusing to stay silent when evil tried...

Life is unpredictable and we never know for sure what may happen next. However, there are some things that should not surprise you. Here are some examples. First – God works in ways that we do not und...

On Aug. 11, President Trump ordered around 800 National Guard troops to assume control of policing our nation’s capital — something that was done frequently in the 1960s but had not been done since th...

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...