After 14 years of riotous living, which included time in the military, five years in and out of jails and a lot of years in saloons, William Holloway, at aged 26, turned to Alcoholics Anonymous for help, and got off the streets of Minneapolis and Memphis. Just in the nick of time, it would seem. Holloway, by his own account, was a murderous, illiterate, unfeeling and … [Read more...]

                We can close the books on another exciting Masters Golf Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. Patrick Reed won it with the low score of 15 under par. Rickie Fowler came in second at 14 under par and Jordan Spieth, who missed tying the record low score for a round by one, came in third at 13 under. The Club and the Master’s are high-class operations, and there have been strong ties over the years with Arkansas … [Read more...]

Much of our attention these days is focused on the proliferation of opioids and especially drugs like the incredibly powerful and deadly Fentanyl. We ask ourselves if building a huge wall on our southern border to keep the drugs out is a good idea and whether we are better off investing more in helping people get over their addictions and build lives of purpose and faith. Many are skeptical about the potential effectiveness of a wall of the contemplated magnitude and inclined to focus more … [Read more...]

Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas is introducing legislation that would stiffen penalties for traffickers in the deadly drug, Fentanyl. In doing so he has shed new light on a drug that killed more than 20,000 people in 2016. That’s more deaths than either heroin or cocaine. Sen. Cotton’s proposal for stiffer sentences is welcome and should be implemented, but it is not enough. We should also take it further with the formation of a local community organization which has the ultimate goal of … [Read more...]

Selling sobriety is, on many levels, a marketing issue. The product, sobriety, has many virtues, among them longer life, better jobs, happier families, saving money, the opportunity to help others and a growing reliance on God. Sobriety, I have found, is even addictive. So who are we going to hire to sell sobriety? I nominate President Donald Trump. “President Trump is the most successful real time communicator in history,” according to author David Scott, who is no slouch when it … [Read more...]