TODAY DEAD CAN DANCE: Halloween is now 364 days away, but if you want more of the macabre right now, celebrate "El Dia de los Muertos," the Day of the Dead. And what better way than with Mexican-style crafts, dance, storytelling and skull-making...

The 5th Annual Lone Star Storytelling Festival was this weekend at Simpson Plaza in Frisco. This video includes Jeri Burns and Barry Marshall as The Storycrafters, and Lyn Ford who treated the Saturday night crowd to a laugh or two.

The crowds went home laughing, thinking, and reminiscing as professional and student storytellers entertained a record number of people at the Lone Star Storytelling Festival Friday and Saturday at Frisco Square.

Tom Longthinks American preachers, from mainstream to mega-church, may be moving away from storytelling to what he calls “wisdom” preaching. “I think we are watching in our own time a major shift in preaching style,” said Long, an Emory University theology professor who comes to Columbia Thursday and Friday for two presentations on preaching and worship. Long, a Presbyterian minister who holds ...

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