Boo-Shay’s thinking he’s in the driver’s seat after he “niggered” Miss Doolittle out of teaching for a month. Surely, she would show him the respect he deserved as the prince of fast thinkin. After all, who would have thought of making her look like a blatant racist, as she was one of the sweetest, kindest ladies he had ever met. And, he really didn’t want to hurt the bitch unless he had to, so she better straighten up when she…
When Boo and his buddies stole the car, they did what too many baby thugs do… they drew the attention of Atlanta’s finest and spent twenty minutes in a high-speed chase until the police finally stopped the thugets by…
The stories that I’m about to put out there for your consideration will be in black and white. That means Boo-Shay is black and I’m white. We are two brothers from different mothers but somehow came together to tell…
Too often, I hear the Word twisted to make it more palatable for someone’s unique sin-sick circumstance. Just tell the Truth with an equal measure of Grace, instead of saying that it includes everyone’s sin but yours. What? My…
What is sin? Is it really an action we take that separates us from God? Does all sin actually require repentance? Today, as Christians, we have made the definition murkier and murkier because if it’s committed by us or…
It didn’t take the prison ministry to help me to identify with murderers, all I had to do, unfortunately, was look in the mirror. I was in college when I decided that someone was an inconvenience, in the…
In early 2005, I was invited to hunt elk on a ranch between Montrose and Telluride, Colorado, with a group of guys I had never met. It was at a location I could not disclose to anyone because of…
Several years ago, Laura and I took a group of kids, including our son Travis and his sister Ali, to Mexico on a mission trip. All of the kids we took were twelve to fourteen years old and slightly…
I was in the Kwa-Zulu Natal area of South Africa hunting with Gerald Conway of Nomad Safaris. I was booked for a fifteen-day leopard hunt with hounds. We were having a difficult time finding a leopard to chase, so…
I was in a restaurant in Anderson, South Carolina meeting with a partner and a couple of contractors about a residential community we were developing a couple of miles away. It was July 3, 2000 about 36 hours after…
“Grandpa wore his suit to dinner nearly every day, no particular reason he just dressed that way.” John Prine– American country folk singer-songwriter E.P. Sloan was an extraordinarily humble man of God. He absolutely loved everyone as…
I was in Zambia in 2000 with Doc Kilgo and baby-faced Stuart McClean who made the mistake of following me everywhere I went with a video camera in hand and a wide-open spirit for adventure. Only problem was, we…
About a year ago, I was in Ecuador on a mission that was organized to encourage the people of a devastated city. Often times, we Christians travel to third world countries with a mission to enhance the lives of…
I have had several years to reflect on an experience I had in Tijuana, Mexico and America’s position on illegal aliens. These are mostly good people who sneak across a border illegally into our country for many reasons that…
Who would name their child Pigkicker? Well Vita Mae changed her son’s name to celebrate the first time he out-ran the pigs to the muscadine patch to pick the grapes for his daddy’s wine. It was a huge accomplishment…
I visit a level 5 prison about once a month as a volunteer chaplain, along with several others that are a part of the same ministry. We go in to share Christ’s love for the inmates and spend time…
“Rambo” and I met at a direct sales convention in Orlando through our host, who wanted both of us to experience the excitement and energy of the convention, and we did. As things will happen when people of a…
I was a junior in high school when my stepfather told me about a great summer job working for Acme Brick where he was the sales manager. They were paying $3.50 per hour for help on the brickyard and…
I was driving down the dirt road to my house in my seventy-something Pinto station wagon after spending the night in town and I noticed the well house that stands near the opposite rear corner of the house. I…
It was 1982, and I had just graduated from forestry school at UGA and was looking to celebrate being the only person in my family to graduate from college, when I decided to take a field trip. A friend…
I was driving down I-85 just a few miles east of Montgomery when my faithful Pinto station wagon became unfaithful. I was coming back to Athens from visiting my family in Baton Rouge during Spring break in 1981 when…
All of us are on a journey in our lives, and some of us, because of “free will” take the rougher roads. As you can tell from my stories, my journey has been a series of almost unbelievable circumstances,…
If you are a regular reader of my stories, by now, you know that I am a hunter through and through. When I think back about all the ways hunting has been a huge part of my life, I…
I stood slowly and took my bow off the hook and in only a moment I saw the bear facing me trying to drag a salmon onto the bank. The bear turned and walked to a clearing we cut…
I was hunting with “head guide”, a Russian bureaucrat from the Game and Fish Department who proclaimed extensive knowledge but demonstrated tremendous ignorance. “What have I gotten myself into?” As a Christian, to try and explain my feelings toward…
I was sixteen and somewhat stupid, and I was working that summer on the Amite River at Ben & Nita’s in Port Vincent, Louisiana. I was responsible for mowing grass around the marina’s boat slips and helping to repair…
We were sitting behind my brother’s house looking at the canal when he asked, “Are you going to be mad at me if I walk off the end of the dock?” I thought for a moment and said, “Nope.”…
It was early, just after first light when we approached the gate as we had done several mornings before. We were on our way to perform the daily ritual of checking lion baits for the sign of a mature…
In 2000, while on a classic safari in Zambia, I took with me a kid, named Stuart McLean, as my videographer. Stuart was so committed to me that I’m afraid I risked his life too often. Jim “Doc” Kilgo…
It was cold, wet and windy on April 8, 1988. It wasn’t exactly turkey hunting weather, but my friend Elmer and I drove all the way to Wilkes County, Georgia the night before to hunt on approximately 5,000 acres…
While in Africa, sitting beside a campfire with Karim, one of our professional hunters guiding us on our safari, Doc said, “If I were to write a book about Africa, it would be because I had a story to…
If you’re not a hunter, you may not know how intense the preparation can be for a safari that I had planned in Africa. For a year prior to going, I had started to prepare for my biggest safari…
There were two men that have made an impact in how I look at life, the planet we live on and its Creator. One was a world-famous scientist and world traveler, Karl-Erik Eriksson, and the other a retired English…