By Shewanda Riley Over 35 years ago, my father died and became one of walking dead. What I mean by this is that he died but was brought back to life. I was in my college dorm room when I got the call from my younger sister that something had
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By Shewanda Riley “Never put a question mark where God has put a period.” Years ago when I worked at a gospel radio station in San Antonio, we played a commercial for
“You need to be targeted, intentional and purposeful.” A friend of mine
By Shewanda Riley “Scars are the mark of a warrior” was one
Embargoed News Release In Guardians, James DeWitt III stars as Jack, a reluctant hero who rescues people for a living and is determined to slow down and live a more normal life
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By Shewanda Riley A number of years ago, I had surgery that quite frankly terrified me. The surgery was necessary, but I was extremely nervous. I wasn’t concerned as much about the
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By Shewanda Riley The story of Henrietta Lacks, a Virginia mother whose cells have transformed medical research for over 70 years, is both amazing and heartbreaking. Cells taken from her body without
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“Over ain’t over!” My former pastor, the late Rev. Dr. Jerome McNeil, stated these words a number of years ago in the middle of a sermon about having hope in the future
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By Shewanda Riley A few years ago, I saw Stranger than Fiction, a pleasantly surprising movie starring Will Ferrell as IRS auditor Harold Crick who leads a fairly uneventful life. One day,
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By Terry Allen I told you many times over, Lucille “Big Mama’s Allen would be trending over everybody else if she were alive today. Lucille “Big Mama” Allen’s lessons are always appropriate
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By Shewanda Riley “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.” This phrase found on car passenger side mirrors has always puzzled me. For starters, even though I’ve read some research
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By Shewanda Riley A number of years ago, I had a conversation with fellow author Michelle Stimpson about how we Christians fail to respond when we see others struggling with character issues.
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By Shewanda Riley Before I knew it, the words tumbled out of my mouth with such ferocity that I was surprised. I could also tell by the stunned looks on the faces
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By Shewanda Riley “You didn’t tell us we had to do that.” During the first weeks of school, I hear this phrase at least once per day per class (probably an average
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