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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.

To diminish Moore’s service because he didn’t deploy abroad insults the service of hundreds of thousands of brave Americans who have raised their right hands to defend the Constitution.

The West must rediscover its strength, its identity, and its willingness to protect the constitutional order handed down by its forebears. The future of our civilization depends on it.

We are not all the same race, color, or even original nationality. But we are bound by a shared belief that God has given people the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Unborn children, disabled or not, have no ability to plead for their own lives or argue their value. The job of a good father is to protect them. Sadly, Jesse Ridgway has shown America what a terrible father truly looks like.

Less than a decade ago, here in Alabama, Democrat Doug Jones won a senate seat against the scandal-ridden Republican Roy Moore, as many Republicans sat out the election on principle. However, it appears the Democrats have no such qualms in putting forth absolute radicals.

Some believe IVF is a dangerous field, both ethically and scientifically, and society is not yet (if ever) ready to tread upon this field. I agree, but those embryos that are not chosen are persons, too, and their lives are entitled to legal protection.

Recent news regarding Jackson Hospital’s potential closure has understandably raised concerns among patients, families, employers and health care providers across the River Region.

But don’t you know, that from the wounds we bear for others, everlasting flowers bloom? That to suffer out of obedience in love is greater than any promise of sin?

The Ridgways may have exploited their dead child for clicks, yet I believe this situation affords us an opportunity to truly see sin and evil for what it is. Let’s make child sacrifice evil again.

The schoolmarm from Queens, armed with her X account and the solemn conviction that Providence has selected her to rescue the benighted, arrived in Montgomery to find the patient has not only recovered but is running a temperature considerably healthier than her own. The poor, ignorant Alabamian, whom she had sought to rescue, is meanwhile gainfully employed, paying modest rent, and disinclined to emigrate, which is more than can be said for the constituents she leaves behind on the sidewalks of the Bronx.

If Jackson Hospital closes, patients will go to Baptist where they will encounter the chaos of an overburdened hospital and where BCBS will pay the higher rates anyway. So why not pay those rates to Jackson and prevent what will be a local and regional healthcare calamity?

Congressional districts should be drawn around geography, population and community – not race – where every party must show up and earn every vote.

God takes us into situations we cannot handle on our own so we learn to trust Him alone. And not just for the moment, but for all that lies ahead.

It’s weird. Being back in America again. For one thing, they don’t call it “America” over in Europe. It’s bad form. They call it “the U.S.”

State Rep. Juandalynn Givan needs to stop crying about how black and brown voters are being suppressed when she wants to suppress the votes which upended her quest for power.

The recent challenge to Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility for governor turns on one word in the Alabama Constitution: “resident.” Article V, Section 117 requires a governor to have been a resident citizen of Alabama for at least seven years before the election. So what does “resident” mean?

Defining boundaries makes flourishing possible. Enforcing them makes liberty a reality.

Will this recent congressional rebuke stop President Trump in Iran? Or is there a bigger issue at hand?

In 1999 there were approximately 12.6 billion board feet of hardwood lumber produced in the U.S., while last year, this number was down to 4.1 billion. Based on conversations with industry insiders, this number isn’t expected to go anywhere but down in 2026. I’m not one for government assistance, but it seems that, in this case, the laws of laissez fair economics must give way to the greater law of morality.

But when we ask whether the Declaration of Independence was a biblical document, what matters is not what men like Adams believed in 1820, but what they believed in 1776 and 1787.

Each time something new comes out of the same old tales. It’s as though some stories are so true that they never die. They begin and end with the same types and characters, but there is always something new to find each time I sit with them – as though each character is alive and active in a way that defies time. 

The silent majority must awaken. Joe Six-Pack cannot remain content with mere existence while the republic he indirectly sustains crumbles under the weight of unchecked power and moral decay. Our forebears did not endure hardship and forge a new order so that their descendants might slumber in apathy.

Divorce is a wound. I will not prettify it into something fashionable or therapeutic. Some losses remain losses forever. The best you can do is refuse to let them become the only story your children inherit.

When viewed from the basic level, our educators power every part of our society.

The debate is no longer about whether we should legalize gambling. It’s about whether a deep red state like Alabama will be complicit in building a system that begins with children’s data and ultimately benefits industries that profit from human weakness.

At the outset of Isaiah’s ministry, he was granted a vision of God in all His majesty, seated upon His throne, surrounded by seraphim crying out in ceaseless worship.