The America I once knew
I am not comfortable when I am writing about politics!
His vehicle flipped over, but help was quick to arrive
I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to some very fine people. On Monday, Oct. 14, at approximately 1 p.m., I was involved in a serious auto accident at the intersection of Highway 52 and South Main Street at the Bypass. I was driving my wife’s Ford Escape. After rolling a few times, I ended up with my vehicle upside-down and I was hanging by my seat belt. I got my seat belt unbuckled and was able to crawl, on my...
In mayor’s race, a tale of 2 Darlingtons
Last week, the News & Press published a 3,300-word Voters’ Guide to the Nov. 5 city of Darlington elections (and a big tip of the hat to Dyan Cohen of the Darlington County League of Women Voters for pulling that together).
Graham, lynching and our ‘hate-filled past’
Can U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham have several seats, please? It’s bad enough that you are defending the once again insensitive and completely ludicrous comments of Donald Trump, but the fact that you represent South Carolina makes me cringe. Trump’s tweets are to be expected at this point, as sad as that is to say, but has Graham been paying attention? You are a senator from South Carolina; let’s have a little geography lesson: South...
The man in the wheelchair
Some years ago, I was called to preach a two-week revival at a little church in West Greenville.
Fall’s unsung colors
“I need to get out of the South. Fall here is no good.”