By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Growing up in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s I constantly heard adults bemoan the direction that television programming was heading. Little did they know. What seemed “over the top” then pales in comparison to programming on network television today. And even worse, there are more networks clogging the airwaves with questionable programming. In my early years there were the big three

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector My 3-year-old grandson, Eli Beasley, is playing soccer this fall. Personally, I think he is too young to play in a league, but Pappy deferred to his parents. Well, Eli is proving Pappy probably was right. He takes a notion to play and practice when he wants to, causing his mother a great deal of frustration. But when he decides to play, Eli

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick made national headlines recently when he refused to stand for the National Anthem prior to a 49ers preseason National Football League game. While I’m not disputing his right to stand or not stand (and I do disagree with his decision to not stand), I do dispute his rationale. Kaepernick, who is biracial, told NFL media reporter Steve

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector When the United States Supreme Court redefined the biblical definition of marriage slightly more than a year ago to allow for homosexual marriage, some Christians thought it couldn’t get any worse. They were wrong. The slippery slope continues to get more slippery with each passing day.