The events that took place Jan. 6 at our nation’s Capitol are reprehensible. As followers of Jesus, we can describe what took place in no other way than “Anti-Christ.”

There is a scripture found in Mark 10:21: “Jesus looked at him and loved him. ‘One thing you lack,’ he said. ‘Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.’”  

On the day this edition comes out many will be glued to their television or laptop watching President Biden’s inauguration.

Although it has been a very busy year so far, it hardly seems possible for it to be close to the end of January already. It has been a month of unpleasant surprises and I sincerely hope they are finished for the rest of the year.

Here’s something you don’t want to hear when you answer your cellphone at work, “Mom, I woke up, and the house is full of smoke and smells like gas or something. I got my siblings out, and we’re in the yard. What should I do?”

It’s known as the model prayer. It was prayed by Jesus. It has been prayed individually as well as corporately in church settings ever since.

The weather in the new year is proving to be just as fickle as it was in the old one. Cold rainy days can be depressing and since we’re staying in all the time, it’s even worse. If you’re a reader, this is the time to be reading those new books you got for Christmas or pick up a gardening (o…

I had to be photographed recently for the newspaper. I literally went from laughing and joking to looking frightened and bug eyed within seconds. For whatever reason, as soon as I see a camera, I nervously contort my face into the most unflattering look possible. I’ve had many laughs with fr…

Vaccine development

Epiphany: The church’s feast marking Jesus’ manifestation to the Gentiles and the culmination of the 12 Days of Christmas.

Praise the Lord, we made it through the year 2020.

I’m not doing it this year. I refuse to set myself up for failure again like I’ve done in years past. Promises of eating less, cutting out anything that’s sweet and staying away from sodas have been broken time and time again and usually within the first 2 weeks of the new year.

My sisters-in-law and I still get a good chuckle remembering when all our oldest daughters were very young, and my mother-in-law gave just 2 out of the 3 of us a book entitled, “Raising Your Strong-Willed, Spirited Child.”

We are embarking on a new year with many of the same problems, but there are definitely reasons to keep the faith.

Well, that depends on the particular situation.

As I was sitting at Monday night’s school board meeting, listening to them talk about bonds and money and the Attorney General and interest rates, I was reminded of a painful truth.

My horoscope just today said “The moon always has your back when 2020 does the most.”

Thank God we are finally coming to the end of 2020.

This has been a year to remember and many of those memories were not pleasant.

Traditionally on Christmas Eve, our children log onto the NORAD Santa Tracker to see how close he is to our home.

I’ve been having difficulty getting into the Christmas spirit.

One November night on a cross-country drive, I fell in love with the tradition of setting candles in windows.

It's 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and I'm sitting in a motel in Jessop, Md., writing because sleep for some reason is eluding me. I am here just outside of Baltimore because I am with a team of individuals from a few different churches, including Augusta, Kirby, Maysville and Cumberland, M…

The end of the year is fast approaching. l am always glad when we reach the shortest day. For some reason it gives me a lift to know the days are getting longer.

Here’s what we know about SARSCoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

I was thinking about telling a funny Christmas story for this week’s column.  

When I was in college, I was the editor-in-chief of the Roanoke College newspaper, called the Brackety-Ack. Why was it named that? Truly, your guess is as good as mine.

“But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19, NRSV).

So what’s a person to feel and how is one supposed to react?

We are continuing on with the crazy weather, the spreading virus and staying safe. The weather hasn’t been conducive to much outdoor activity, but we all know that can change overnight.

For the record, I am in no way the cook in our family. I’m more likely to set off the smoke detector or end up saying things like, “Just scrape off the black parts. It’s edible.”

When I was growing up, we had strict rules about dessert.

These days, the weather is the prime topic — well, except for the virus. And unfortunately, neither can be ignored or taken for granted.

The days of the old cook stove and hand-drawn pumps for water are over, and you will never get another S&H Green Stamp for buying your groceries at a local food mart. Any vehicle that is simple enough to fix on one’s own is now a collector’s item, news travels faster on Facebook than it …

We have decked the halls of the Savage home. This year things look a tiny bit different.

After months and months (and months) of battening down the hatches in defense of COVID-19, it finally happened.

It is the week before Thanksgiving and I will admit that I am having a difficult time getting into the thanksgiving spirit.

I have heard very few people who are singing the praises of 2020. I have even expressed my distaste for this past year.

Again the weather has turned a corner on us. We were experiencing so many warm days with an occasional cool night, and all of a sudden we were having frost warnings.

Last week, our internet slowed down. The work we had typically been successful in completing at home became more difficult.

Election Day has come and gone. Contrary to many assertions on social media and elsewhere, COVID-19 has not gone away, and neither has responsible media coverage of it.