Scott Jones

Lately, I’ve been intending to read some of Will Rogers’ writings. Not only is he Oklahoma’s favorite son, but he was a popular writer of cultural and political commentary in his day. Only 10 months into my own gig writing commentary, I’m hoping I’ll learn some things. This desire to develop my knowledge and skills […]

Lately, I’ve been intending to read some of Will Rogers’ writings. Not only is he Oklahoma’s favorite son, but he was a popular writer of cultural and political commentary in his day. Only 10 months into my own gig writing commentary, I’m hoping I’ll learn some things. This desire to develop my knowledge and skills […]

On Aug. 25, Joe Quigley, an Oklahoma City Public Schools teacher, was reinstated. Oklahoma County District Judge Barbara Swinton ruled that he had been wrongfully terminated. Quigley has been prominent over the last decade in advocating for the legal protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students in the anti-harassment and anti-bullying policies of the […]

On Aug. 25, Joe Quigley, an Oklahoma City Public Schools teacher, was reinstated. Oklahoma County District Judge Barbara Swinton ruled that he had been wrongfully terminated. Quigley has been prominent over the last decade in advocating for the legal protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students in the anti-harassment and anti-bullying policies of the […]

The mother of one of my congregants recently died of cancer. When the cancer was discovered, it had progressed to the point of being untreatable. She had been in pain for a while, but like many folk, just toughed it out. She didn’t go to a physician just to see what might be the problem […]

The mother of one of my congregants recently died of cancer. When the cancer was discovered, it had progressed to the point of being untreatable. She had been in pain for a while, but like many folk, just toughed it out. She didn’t go to a physician just to see what might be the problem […]

At the risk of being proven wrong like our former vice president, I think the right-wing insurgency in Oklahoma is in its last throes, as evidenced by the absurd political theatre of the “Proclamation for Morality.”  It was always a weird phenomenon in Oklahoma, running counter to our historic identity as a state of populist, […]

At the risk of being proven wrong like our former vice president, I think the right-wing insurgency in Oklahoma is in its last throes, as evidenced by the absurd political theatre of the “Proclamation for Morality.”  It was always a weird phenomenon in Oklahoma, running counter to our historic identity as a state of populist, […]

It was a beautiful, sunny evening on Saturday, June 6, as my husband, Michael, and I were married here in an Oklahoma City park in front of 200 of our family and close friends. The officiating Baptist minister pronounced ” emphatically, I might add ” at the conclusion of the ceremony: “With the power invested […]

In November 1972, 82-year-old historian Angie Debo, preaching in her home church in Marshall, took for her topic the “unholy power of what Eisenhower called the ‘military industrial complex.’” According to her biography, “Angie Debo: Pioneering Historian,” by Shirley A. Leckie, despite 30 years serving as a lay minister, that particular sermon did not go […]