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In Oklahoma, the median income ranks 41st yet, our people form the nation's 11th most generous state. Here, people give out of their need.
All justice-loving citizens need to support regulatory and legislative efforts to more equally balance the playing field between employers and workers who -- like Dan Lee and his co-workers -- seek to turn today's sweatshops into decent, productive and family-sustaining places of work.
Given that we just passed 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it is time for every big national environmental group to demand that President Obama extinguish this 485-mile carbon bomb fuse, before it's too late.
Oklahomans were already reeling from the May 20, 2013 tornados, when several more struck on May 31. Here we go again. At about 6:15pm (central time), ...
The scientists try to get close enough to determine the funnel's path and then set instruments in front to see if they can gather data that may one day help predict formation and, as a consequence, save lives. But what about the news crews? Why are they taking these risks?
Lincoln Chaffee is our Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award-winner. See, Republicans? Not only will you be welcomed, you'll actually get awards for making the trek across the aisle! Step right up, there's room for everyone!
In the aftermath of catastrophe, people in Oklahoma pull together. We do what we can do to help our neighbors. After the floods in 1972 we formed an a...
From Fred Phelps to John Piper, Christians who speak hatred on behalf of God outdo Jesus, who humbly professed ignorance of the reason for disasters.
The task may seem Herculean, but we have actually done it before. In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, United Way of Central Oklahoma recruited people and organizations to provide support to the affected communities.
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God is indeed in the midst of suffering, but as its resolution, not its cause. God is in its healing. God is in the relief workers, the doctors, the volunteers, and in the heroic acts of people who saved their neighbors and pulled survivors from their shattered homes.
On May 3, 1999, at age 12, I watched the destruction that the EF5 tornado caused in the Oklahoma City metro area. Fourteen years later, as a pastor in a United Methodist Church in Moore, I thought back to 1999 as I helped hurry people into the safe room at our church.
Soon the news coverage of Moore, Oklahoma will be gone. Caring people from out of state will return home, and even Oklahomans will return to their lives before they were so dramatically affected last week. We are grateful for their every caring act.
Some weeks, not much happens in political news, and other weeks it seems like almost too much happens. This was one of the latter types of week.