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Celebrate The 4th of July & Stay Cool In The ProcessColumns Editorial
4TH OF JULY CHEESECAKE--- Berry Patriotic Cheesecake Fluff Salad is the easiest possible dessert to make for a Fourth of July gathering, but you wouldn’t know that from the creamy, delicious taste. The Fourth of July...
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Hinds CC Culinary Student Selected for National CompetitionEditorial
Chef Kerwin Pleasant reaches the second round of “Carla P. Hall Presents: Favorite Chef Cooking Competition.” Kerwin Pleasant is a non-traditional, and apparently exceptional, culinary arts student at Hinds...
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Winning A Debate Isn’t Exactly Tantamount To Winning An ElectionEditorial Political
In the eyes of many political observers and voters, serious questions over President Biden’s mental sharpness and physical limitations going forward are of epic consequence to America in this election year. But...
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Will Low Voter Turnout Rates Continue in November 5th Presidential ElectionEditorial
On the 60th year anniversary of this nation’s most important, courageous and successful drive to enlist more voters, the turnout rate in certain 2024 elections across America has been depressingly disappointing. In...
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Armchair Ponderings What did students do before backpacks?Columns Editorial
We lived a half a block from South Pike High School for 26 years. Many days I would see the evolution of heavy-laden backpacks hanging from students of various sizes; wondering what would happen to the backs of those...
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Armchair Ponderings Try eating at La Mariposa on Mother’s DayColumns Editorial
My wife and I celebrated Mother’s Day for sixty-five out of sixty-six years together. Sadly. last September she passed away. I spent several days planning on what to do, without forgetting her contribution to our...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Quickly” (Galatians 1:6)Columns Editorial
“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you.” (Galatians 1:6) Elizabeth Clephane captures the truth of this passage - “two wonders I confess, the wonders of redeeming love and my...
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Armchair Ponderings The invisible manColumns Editorial
A few months ago, when she was still alive, my wife and I were sitting in the local hospital waiting room. I was scheduled for follow-up tests after an earlier heart attack, but as usual there was going to be quite a...
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Felder’s Fruit TreesColumns Editorial
There is a storm raging in Paradise, with some plants causing real problems, one raindrop at a time. Starting in our own yards. Past week or so, towns and countryside have been awash in a surfeit of beauty, fragrance,...
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Terry Headlight NewsColumns Editorial
On Tuesday, prior to the March meeting of the town’s alders, Chief of Police Anthony Moore announced a number of police officer awards. Terry’s Officer of the Year for 2023 is Officer John Arnold, who is continually...
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HCC Music Student to Sing at the Grand Ole OpryEditorial News
Hinds Com-munity College sophomore Gavin Standish, a member of the college’s choral music program, is only 19 years old, but when he sings he demonstrates the command of someone far beyond his years. Standish is set...
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Emory African American Studies Expert to Delve into Struggle for Educational Access During MC’s Black History Month PresentationEditorial
Sixty years ago, the federal government launched a comprehensive initiative designed to break the cycle of poverty by giving preschool children from families with low income a culturally responsive program to help meet...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “...to whom glory...” (Galatians 1:5)Columns Editorial
“to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.” (Galatians 1:5) Glory - we do not use that word anymore. One wonders why. Within Presbyterianism, most children learn the Westminster Shorter Catechism which asks:...
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Armchair Ponderings To a Happy New YearColumns Editorial
I said something mundane in passing to an individual like, Happy New Year! He replied, “it’s just another holiday.” That sort of got my hackles up. Of course, I didn’t know him, so I could not lecture him, but I...
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Armchair Ponderings Christmas vs. HolidaysColumns Editorial
It will be Christmas Monday, so let’s drop all of this Happy Holiday’s stuff and say Merry Christmas! Next week I will say Happy New Year! When the secular Fourth of July comes around you don’t hear Happy Holiday....
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Armchair Ponderings The five stages of grief, fact, or fictionColumns Editorial
Several weeks have passed without a Ponderings contribution. One of my friends asked if it was because of the loss of my muse. My wife of sixty-six years and I frequently discussed my column, generally it was after the...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Blessed...” (Matthew 7:9-11)Columns Editorial
“Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “God Ordains...” (Matthew 26:39)Columns Editorial
“And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, ‘My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.’” (Matthew 26:39) Every decision...
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McComb’s Will Price Taught Hollywood How to Speak Southern (then Married Maureen O’Hara at Chatawa)Editorial Headline
Will Price, we no longer need your services. Price was a native of McComb who taught Hollywood actors and actresses how to speak southern as needed for their films, including “Gone With the Wind.” He must’ve had...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Lamb’s book of life...” (Revelation 21:27)Columns Editorial
“But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.” (Revelation 21:27) Within our theology, Christians have...
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Does Mississippi Have the Deadliest Roads in America?Editorial Headline
How many more national surveys and ratings can Mississippi take that show us to be outright rapscallions, rogues, scamps and scoundrels? Not to mention wretches, meanies, caitiffs, devils and knaves? All of those words...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “The Lords Table...” (Matthew 26:29)Columns Editorial
“I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” (Matthew 26:29) On the night when Jesus was betrayed, He prepared a meal. This meal...
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From the Pastor’s Pen: “Worship...” (Hebrews 10:24-25)Columns Editorial
“And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.”...
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Felder’s Summer GardeningColumns Editorial
When it comes to plowing through adverse gardening conditions, of which Mississippi has its share, it’s never too late to try, try again. I have some easy tips for getting more out of right now, without hurting...
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