By Bradley Robertson Wow. What a wild, and perhaps adventurous, last couple weeks it has been. In processing all the events unfolding around us, my...
To Be A Bird
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Courting down South
By Hardy Jackson Of all of the ways Southerners are stereotyped and slandered, few are more insulting than what “they” say about our rituals of...
As quarry victory shows, politics takes many forms
By Greg Markley In a classic Folgers commercial, an Army sergeant gets up early to make coffee for his unit. “Top” arrives and the NCO says: “Good...
Alabama Medicaid should use every tool it has to save lives
Written by Jim Carnes Special to the Opelika Observer Gov. Kay Ivey and her cabinet members deserve applause for taking swift and decisive action to...
On a hill far away
By Bruce Green There are passages of Scripture that are profoundly rich, deep and endlessly expansive. They seem to tower over other texts and have...
Letter to the Editor – Take Time to Complete the U.S. Census
To the Editor: Starting March 12, the United States will undertake a census to determine how many people live in this country. It happens every ten...
I Wonder How That Happened?
By Bruce Green Submission is a prominent theme in 1 Peter. He speaks of the younger being submissive to the older (5:5), wives to their husbands...
Thinking about reverence
By Bruce Green There’s something about Jesus’ cleansing of the temple that is startling. It seems out of character with Him, but it’s not. It’s...
Open letter to Gov. Kay Ivey – A plea for Nathaniel Woods
Dear Governor Ivey, My name is Elaena Faraino Starr and I personally spent seven long days sitting on a metal chair reading more than 2,500...