by Marv Knox | Sep 24, 2024 | Feature-, News
The T.B. Maston Foundation is receiving applications for its scholarship to cover the 2025-26 academic year, David Morgan, the executive director, announced. “The Maston Foundation provides a $5,000 scholarship annually to a graduate student whose study focuses on...
by Marv Knox | May 3, 2021 | Opinion
Among the world’s most effective marriage-enrichment tools, consider the humble GPS. The smartphone app provides valuable, accurate information. It tells you not only where you are but also what you must do to get where you are going. GPS has been a godsend to...
by Marv Knox | Jun 17, 2020 | Opinion
On the U.S.-Mexico border, pain eclipses politics. Refugees’ tears paint portraits of pure pain. A pre-pandemic visit to immigrant shelters puts flesh and blood on agony and flickers of hope embodied in immigrants crowded across northern Mexico, seeking U.S. asylum....
by Marv Knox | Mar 27, 2020 | News
Compassion and concern, faith and fear, respect and resolve crackled across the country as pastors who comprise Fellowship Southwest’s ministry to asylum-seekers talked on the phone March 25. They spent almost two hours telling each other about their work with...
by Marv Knox | Mar 23, 2020 | News
Lorenzo Ortiz, a Texas pastor who operates three immigrant shelters in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, stayed behind when the U.S. and Mexican governments closed the border to all “nonessential” travel at midnight Saturday, March 21. Mutual concern about the transmission of the...