Fire is a deadly mistress. The same flames that give warmth and comfort often can cause destruction and death. As a former firefighter, Rory McCallister went through the inferno and back for more than 30 years, but he has now found a more artistic way to tame the flames: the art of glassblowing. While he […]
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Health kick
Grant funds will create the Oklahoma Shared Clinical and Translational Resources program, which develops partnerships between the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF), Native American tribes and physicians across the state. “This gives us access to people and data immediately,” said Courtney Montgomery, Ph.D, an associate member of the […]
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Point: This is not a culture war
I’m a former Eagle Scout, a former U.S. Air Force officer, and a Vietnam veteran. I’ve attended church regularly for over 60 years. I married my high school sweetheart. Together, the two of us raised three wonderful children who share our same values. Our eldest son is gay, and he married another man. We wouldn’t […]
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Memory Lane
Former Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane said he set out wanting to write a biography, rather than an autobiography. The subject: God. “This is not meant to be a book about the fascinating subject of me,” Lane writes in the preface of his new book “Amazingly Graced.” Lane was a prosecutor in the Oklahoma […]
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Alleged abuse
A former Oklahoma City Catholic priest has been accused of childhood sexual abuse in a lawsuit by one of his former parishioners. The Rev. Stephen D. Cude is named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed recently in Oklahoma County District Court. The plaintiff’s identity is not revealed in the filing. Cude did not return […]