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The truth is that God sent his Son to die to make men holy. This grants us all equality and rights. This gives us freedom in Christ. And this message has emboldened our founders and Americans for 250 years to fight to make men free – all while God is marching on!

Congress should not rush to pass a bill based on supposed “support,” fluffed-up news coverage, or the desire to tell people back home you are doing something to “fix college sports” during an election year.

I did not bleed for some watered-down, guilt-ridden version of America. I did not fight so my children could grow up apologizing for the very flag I wore on my shoulder. I did not watch good men die just to watch politicians sell our sovereignty, borders and future.

To me, this solar farm is a $350 million investment in Baldwin County that will provide over $50 million in property taxes alone. That will provide all citizens of Baldwin County with more funding for schools, roads, parks, and other county-wide services.

As a friend observed, Gen X will probably take the hit of losing our Social Security benefits to preserve money for our children. We grew up watching Charlie Brown get the football ripped out from under him every Thanksgiving, so it feels normal to be told we’ll never receive our benefits. Being raised on hose water and neglect toughens you up.

The Judeo-Christian recognition of equality did not involve Marxist notions of redistribution of wealth. “By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments,” Thomas Aquinas said.

The Riverchase Galleria helped define who we are as a city, and with the right partners and the right vision, its best days can still lie ahead. 

To truly know someone depends much more on what’s within the depths of a broken and contrite heart than anything that can be observed by the naked eye.

Ask yourself… what do you live for? Who holds first place in your heart?

The Declaration is less an argument invented than a mind discovered, a consciousness arriving at self-knowledge through its own prose.

The battle over our founding principles is no longer fought with muskets and cannons. It is fought in classrooms, on social media, in newsrooms, and throughout our culture. And far too many of our children are walking into that battle completely unarmed.

One day, as God was sitting in all of heaven’s sovereignty and sanctity and etherealness and stuff, little Randy came to visit.

With her battles against Lumpkin, Givan is trampling on those black voices she claims she wants to protect, showing that she does not care one whit about her district, their black voices, or their power to enact change.

For years, I fell into the trap of placing far more importance on federal elections than state elections. I forgot that the State House, local courthouse, and especially my own house are far more important than the White House.

The Magna Carta did not merely anticipate the Declaration of Independence. It made it necessary, made it credible, and made it permanent.

All up and down the highway from North Alabama to North Florida, proprietors seemed to be of a similar mind, namely, we want your money but don’t think we’re going to furnish a restroom. Pay us and move on!

This entire residency hoax is about the fact that my opponents have nothing to run on, so they have to make stuff up and hope that Alabamians are dumb enough to buy it. This shows you what they really think of the hardworking people of Alabama. They think you can’t think for yourselves.

The Truth and Unity Amendment gives America’s largest Protestant denomination the direction for removing churches from the SBC who go against the Bible’s teaching that only qualified men, not women, should be pastors.

Whatever Jefferson became later in life, in 1776 he spoke as a Christian, wrote as a Christian, and apparently thought as a Christian. The Declaration must be understood as the work of the Jefferson of 1776, not the Jefferson of 1820.

The current divisiveness ripping through Alabama’s veteran ranks is not merely unfortunate, but a spiritual wound.

I confess I’d take a benevolent monarch if it would spare me yet another round of low I.Q. attack ads and text solicitations vying for my vote. Who knew democracy could feel like such a mockery of self-government?

Our South is not a decaying land but rather a thriving one. We have a South worth celebrating and preserving, painted with the broad strokes of beauty, tradition, and a true fear of the Lord. 

When Schmitt dove headfirst into the grass with his nose bleeding and his uniform ruined and the ball in his glove, he looked – briefly, perfectly – like a ballplayer. And the crowd that watched him, sun-warm and loud and happy, looked like an America that was, at least for seven innings, having an absolutely fine time of it.

The last pebble in our sling is with the courts and our government leaders. Our prayer is that with their help, that pebble will strike home, and Jackson Hospital will survive.

Directly voting for a candidate places a lot of responsibility on the individual voter, especially in down-ballot races that don’t have advertising budgets. Down-ballot races are often decided by chance, where variables such as ballot position, name length, pronounceability, gender, and other factors play a big role.  

The doctrine of the Trinity, that God is one in essence and eternally exists as three distinct Persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is foundational to the Christian faith. And while this truth is beyond our human comprehension, it is vital to our understanding of salvation.

Tommy stood behind her. He guided her young hands with his own. Mari had never done a thing with wood before. She found enormous pleasure seeing the spokeshave blade remove curls of white wood, like long ribbons, as though peeling a carrot.