Lifestyles
Isabella’s Story: Landing in Hong Kong for the U20 Championship
Editor’s note: Longwood women’s lacrosse player Isabella McCullough is in Hong Kong this week and next. She’s been ...
Lifestyles
The Word: Can these states be united again?
Do you drink “soda” or “pop”? How do you pronounce the words “roof” and “wolf”? I never cease ...
Lifestyles
Devotional: The hand that rocks the cradle
Writing in 1865, William Ross Wallace’s poem, “What Rules the World” may offer us an insightful look at ...
Lifestyles
Cainan Townsend: Let’s talk about Moton’s World Heritage status
Happy August, as our K-12 schools prepare to go back to school with our higher education institutions shortly ...
Lifestyles
Devotional: Nobody wants to go through things alone
Author’s note: This is a devotional by my niece, Emma Culver, recent LU grad in Health Promotion and ...
Lifestyles
Through the Garden Gate: The Daylily Whisperer
Some gardeners grow lots of different plants. Others fall in love with one or two plants and specialize ...
Lifestyles
The Word: Adam blew it
Which of us has not imagined winning the lottery? If you were the lucky winner, and you chose ...
Lifestyles
Trents Mill News: Remembering when ice cream was a penny
Well, they say you can’t buy anything for a penny these days, but that wasn’t always true. In ...
Lifestyles
Happy to be here: Caterpillars and butterflies
Earlier this summer, my husband and I were walking near our home. I stopped short to avoid stepping ...
Lifestyles
Dr. Witherspoon: On Call
A patient in the emergency room of a training hospital required admission for a drug overdose. The ER ...
Lifestyles
Devotional: ‘The road to Gaza’
In the first 4 chapters of Acts, we see the early church growing by the thousands. This rapid ...
Lifestyles
The Word: ‘Nothing shall be impossible to you’
Just the other morning, while walking the dog, I witnessed something that we have all seen many times: ...
Lifestyles
Just another day on the old age funny farm
By Jim Harris The Farmville Herald Tis time to once again reflect on what an ace I married ...
Lifestyles
Trents Mill News: Fun Day returns, a time for homecoming
The whole concept of a church homecoming is just over a century old at this point. Back around ...
Lifestyles
The Word: Recharging our batteries
If your household is anything like mine, you have lots of electronics that need recharging every day: cell ...
Lifestyles
Devotional: A new humanity
12 …remember that you were at that time without Christ…13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once ...
Lifestyles
Through the Garden Gate: It’s too hot in the garden
We’ve had day after day of temperatures above 90F, and the heat has taken a toll on both ...
Lifestyles
The Word: Summer invites us to be kids again
“So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, for whoever has entered God’s rest ...
Lifestyles
Devotional: The wise builder obeys
What kind of a builder are you? The parable of the wise and foolish builders, and the context ...
Lifestyles
When you say Jim Harris, the question becomes ‘which one’?
UVA football has signed a Jim Harris, outside linebacker, but it’s hard to forget his namesake. In 1961, ...
Lifestyles
Happy To Be Here: Some of my favorite things
What are your favorite memories of summers gone by? Barbecues, patriotic bunting, and fireworks? Vacation planning, iced drinks, ...
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: Do your plants resupinate?
Plants do amazing things. Vines can twine in either counterclockwise or clockwise directions. Our native wisteria twines counterclockwise, ...
Lifestyles
The Word: The heart of Jesus
In the mid 1670’s, a young French nun named Margaret Alacoque lived in a convent in eastern France. ...
Lifestyles
Devotional — A beacon of hope
Years ago, I volunteered as a prison chaplain. There was one aspect of this responsibility that always intrigued ...
Lifestyles
Mike Wilson: Ice cream hacks from a Baptist church upbringing
Yes, it is incredibly warm outside. Some might even call it hot. As the thermometer creeps up toward ...
Lifestyles
Grateful Boomers return to Bald Knob
Sometimes, a place is just so enjoyable that you have to make a return trip. That was the ...
Opinion
Mike Wilson: It all started with a Hampden-Sydney lecture
It started like all good stories do, with some truth mixed in. This time around, it involves my ...