COMMENTARY: Platitude season

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   “It doesn’t matter what you’re doing, as long as you’re having fun. Love will always get you through. Crime doesn’t pay. He/she who laughs last laughs best. Everybody needs somebody.” You should be...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Resurrection Day 2023

By TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   Continuation… Read Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-20; John 20:12, 18-23 “I got so excited, because here’s what He said.” Pastor Tim explained. “His hand is not short...

Commentary: Speaking of trash

By ANN MANEY COGGINS Big Y Community   I read the recent commentary: “Talking Trash” by Robert Jumper. I agree 100 percent with what he wrote. Interestingly enough, I had the privilege of having Freeman Owle as my 3rd and 6th-grade teacher. I credit...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Resurrection Day, 2023

By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR (Transcribed by Myra D. Colgate) Cherokee Pentecostal Holiness Church   Continuation… Read:  Matthew 28: 1-10; Mark 16:1-20; John 20:12, 18-23 “I know there has already been a long night ahead of someone, but I also know that in...

COMMENTARY: Talking trash

By ROBERT JUMPER One Feather Editor   We should be as concerned, as a people, about the environment as any people group. It is in our genes. The relationship of the Cherokee people to land, wind, water, and sky is spiritual and the stuff of myth and legend....