6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (894+ words) (ANALYSIS) For most of his 92 years, Wendell Berry farmed his Lane’s Landing homestead in Henry County, Kentucky, using methods that embraced the land. He preferred draft horses to diesel-powered tractors and used crop rotation and manure fertilizer to naturally nurture…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (591+ words) (ANALYSIS) When Robert Lee Parton died in 2000, the illiterate former sharecropper asked his large musical family to sing “If We Never Meet Again (This Side of Heaven),” his favorite country-gospel song. “If we never meet again this side of heaven…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (545+ words) (REVIEW) More and more faith-based films are following the “Elmer Gantry” plot. Based on the 1927 book and remade into the Oscar-nominated 1960 film starring Burt Lancaster, “Elmer Gantry” follows a con artist who becomes a revival preacher and finds enormous success…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (719+ words) (ANALYSIS) When Dolly Parton stepped onto a stage in Tennessee after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of the American South in 2024, she did what she had done throughout her life: She turned compassion into action. With her familiar blonde hair and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (601+ words) Dolly Parton, the country music singer, songwriter and actress whose rags-to-riches story, talent and large-than-life persona helped turn her into a cultural icon, died Tuesday in Nashville. She was 80. Parton’s family announced her death in a social media video post....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (387+ words) (REVIEW) Faith-based films are in a time of fascinating transition. Shows like “The Chosen” and “House of David” are giving Christian films and filmmakers a mainstream respect that they’ve never really had before. At the same time, the faith-based audience…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1233+ words) After 11 seasons, PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!” series “Grantchester” has come to an end. For more than a decade, viewers returned to the quiet village of Cambridgeshire to watch an unlikely crime-solving duo: Anglican vicars and Det. Inspector George “Geordie” Keating. Between…...