by Ray Hill | Jul 12, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill I imagine few, if any, readers remember George Grider of Memphis. Grider served one term in Congress from Shelby County, yet he deserves to be remembered due to the fact he defeated the last vestige of the old Crump machine to get to Congress. ...
by design | Jul 6, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson When your children invite you to dinner or to travel with them, you show up. I’m not a beach person. I prefer a mountain stream “far from the madding crowd.” But, since it’s more about the journey than the destination, Becky and I will spend...
by Mike Steely | Jul 6, 2020 | Columnist, Steely
By Mike Steely If you’ve played Monopoly you know that card well. Drawing it sends you to jail in the game and you sit there and miss two turns unless you roll doubles or have a “Get Out of Jail” card. If you’re a law or history buff you might like to take a drive and...
by Joe Rector | Jul 6, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector This coronavirus has kicked us for half a year, and most folks are losing patience with it and the restraints that it demands of us. Some people handle things better than the rest of us. I feel for young people the most. They’ve lost graduations,...
by design | Jul 6, 2020 | Columnist, Moore
By Ralphine Major He came to our church in the mid-sixties. Rev. James “Preacher Jim” McCulla was called to pastor Fairview Baptist Church in Corryton, Tennessee. Back then, Fairview was a small church with an active membership around two hundred plus. Rev....
by design | Jul 6, 2020 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore I like these thoughts I read one day in my little booklet, “Our Daily Thoughts.”. They seemed so apropos to this time. Let me share them with you. “Alexa, Amazon’s voice-controlled device, has an interesting feature. It can erase everything you say....
