ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A more than two-hundred-year-old tale about a circuit-riding preacher named John Shrock proves that some Americans in the Red River Valley during the early 1800s had the ...

Methodism enjoyed widespread growth in America in the middle to late 1700s and 1800s because of its "circuit riders." Circuit riders, also called "saddlebag preachers," were a different kind of clergy ...

Several years ago, while visiting North Carolina, we stopped at a rest stop. On the opposite side of the highway we saw a man riding a white horse. Other travelers seemed also to be interested. The ...

Technology has always attracted big dreamers. Think back to the rhetoric of two years ago, when e-commerce was supposed to change the world. Yet, as the economy sputters, there are people who still ...