By Bruce Green Thanksgiving is a unique holiday. For starters, it is an American holiday as opposed to one celebrated internationally (like New Year’s Day, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, etc.) Although it has some roots in England in the practice of the Puritans, it was...

By Jan H. Gunter For the Opelika Observer As we enter the holiday season of Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah, the word “gratitude” is one of those quintessential edicts which comes to mind when talking about what makes these seasons so meaningful. But, as we...

Special to the Opelika Observer By Steve Marshall Kamille McKinney. Aniah Blanchard. Sloan Harmon. During the last six weeks, the people of Alabama have been confronted with a frightening reality that very few of our politicians have been willing to acknowledge: our...

By Bruce Green In 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, we have a minister to the Gentiles raising funds for Jewish people. That might sound a little strange to us, but it is totally consistent with the biblical principle that we are people first and everything else (all of the...