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All The Way Down

By WENDY HODGE You may live your whole life without learning this truth, and I hope you do. I’ve learned it, and the truth I’ve learned is this: When you love someone who drowns themselves in a bottle or buries themselves in a mountain of pills, slowly killing the...
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Squabbling Or Serving – Your Choice

By WALTER ALBRITTON RELIGION — A ttitudes matter. We have choices. In the tenth chapter of his Gospel, Mark describes at one point the attitude of two disciples, James and John, who were brothers. Then immediately he portrays the different attitude of Bartimaeus, a...
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Offer Hospitality With Easy, Make-Ahead Dishes

By Ann Cipperly After being home most of two years, we have missed celebrating special occasions, having houseguests and just getting together to savor dinners with family and friends. Now that the virus numbers have remained low, plan a get-together. Whether it is a...
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Making the Grade: Bizilia’s Cafe

By STACEY PATTON WALLACE AUBURN –– Have you ever noticed how well your Mama seems to do everything? Barbara Patton, my Mama, was married to my Daddy for 66 years. She is an amazing wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, Christian role model, cook, cleaner,...
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There’s a word for that!

There’s a word for that!

Oct 16, 2019

By Greg Markley Think what Starbucks is to Wi-Fi seekers and Red Bull is to students needing a jolt of energy. That is what the Oxford English...

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Inside the Statehouse

Inside the Statehouse

Oct 16, 2019

By Steve Flowers One of the greatest Congressmen and leaders in Alabama history is Congressman Jack Edwards. He passed away three weeks ago at age...

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Behind the guy in the red hat

Behind the guy in the red hat

Oct 9, 2019

By Hardy Jackson Every Sunday morning, when I turn on the TV to hear some football “analysts” tell me what I saw the day before, I know that sooner...

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Half a century

Half a century

Oct 9, 2019

By Wendy Hodge Fifty years can go by in the blink of an eye. Just ask my best friend. By the time you read this, he will mark half a century on this...

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Baseball

Baseball

Oct 9, 2019

By Sean Dietrich The last thing you probably want to read about is baseball, even though today was the last day of the Major League season. Believe...

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Lost and found

Lost and found

Oct 9, 2019

By Bruce Green I’m convinced that when we see God one day, we will be absolutely and utterly overwhelmed by His glory. It will be like nothing we...

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