Opinion Archive

Softball has taken a big step forward in the area this year.

One of the local schools in Northwest Florida put out a post a few days ago seeking money for its playoff trip to the Jacksonville area for a best-of-three baseball series.


An athlete asked me to share it on social media in the hopes it would help their cause. I did. I’m always here to help the athletes any way I can.

I know this current generation of high school athletes can sometimes be given a hard time about not being tough enough or focused enough.


But there is a lot of promise and potential for the future.

I often watch runners in distance races at track meets finish well behind those they are running against.

We all know there is some serious strength in the Panhandle when it comes to weightlifting.

By late afternoon on March 27, I’m pretty sure even people on the most remote island in the world knew the University of West Florida was headed to the Division I level for football.

As I read the Easter story as told by the Bible, it causes me to pause to think that a record-low 20% of Americans now say the Bible is the literal word of God, down from 24% the last time the question was asked by Gallup polling in 2017. Evidence for the Bible as the […]

At my birth, my parents named me “Michael,” perhaps after my dad’s brother or after the famous ballplayer, Mickey Mantle; I’m not sure. For the first half of my life, I went by the name “Mike.” Church members called me, “Pastor Mike.” Now I have gone back to “Michael.” It is, after all, my name. […]

When the Florida legislature passed a bill allowing booster clubs to pay high school coaches extra money, the first thought was that it sounds great on paper.


But when you look at it a little closer, it’s nothing more than an easy win for the legislature.

Spring break for the area high schools was this past week, marking the last real chill period until the end of the school year.