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Southern Hospitality | Plan an Easter menu with make-ahead spring favorites

BY ANN CIPPERLY OPINION — As dawn breaks on Easter morning, sunrise services are held throughout East Alabama to herald in a glorious day of church services and celebrations. Plan to observe the good news of Easter as the main focus for the day. Keep the celebration...

Sean of the South | Just hold on

OPINION — I have here a letter from a young woman who will remain anonymous. “Sean, I’m in a very rough place — the man I love and was supposed to marry ended our engagement and kicked me out of our shared house unceremoniously. A lot of days, it’s hard to see the...

Altar Call | The father’s role as a peacemaker

OPINION — The world in which we live is broken because of conflict and disagreement. It was no different in the first century when Jesus walked the Earth and encouraged his disciples to be peacemakers. Surely the living Christ wants his people to take seriously his...

The voices around the pool

OPINION — John 5:7 — “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up…”There is something heartbreaking about that sentence.For 38 years, a man lay beside a pool in Jerusalem. People believed that when the water stirred, healing would happen....