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Earlier this week, my family and I got on our knees and prayed for a dear friend of mine who is undergoing kidney transplant surgery. We asked God to help our friend and his family through the surgery and through the recovery period to follow. This surgery is serious. Our prayers are serious. My concern for my friend is serious.

When misadventures occur, the collision between high expectations and cold realities can double our disappointment.

Generation X – born between 1965 and 1980 – has become the pillar generation.

Misplaced empathy, in so stalwartly focusing on perceived victims, actually creates more actual victims.

The only way to stop the endless machinations of evil people constantly promoting a culture of murdering our babies is to legally acknowledge what we already know to be true: a person is a person, no matter how small. 

Mix pioneer values into the new Netflix reboot and this Little House series may be even more of a success than the one that gave Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert legendary status.

Property ownership separates free citizens from the oppression of totalitarian regimes – whether socialist, fascist or technocratic. Yet, in the great state of Alabama, we face a direct denial of property rights.

Could it be that, by interacting with people on the other side and treating them as human beings, we help them see that we are human as well?

For children to love reading again, they must be shown and learn how to love life – real, embodied life, as God has given it, with all its difficult delights. 

Apparently, the Alabama governor’s office doesn’t care about us.

As long as there have been wars, there have been spectators watching reflections of their projections onto the mayhem and havoc. 

Keep up on national events without letting the news crush you, look to God rather than government for hope and inspiration, recognize your limitations, and take time to appreciate each day’s gifts: these are some of the antidotes to the toxins of our time.

The Trump administration’s unapologetic support for Israel has set the stage for a historic shift.

It’s OK to be proud of who we are. It’s absolutely right to flex the muscle of America, and doing so is not offensive.

Today’s men don’t have to reject children and family just because they had a bad experience growing up.

If we really care about reducing violence, we must care about rebuilding the family – starting with fathers.

I got into an argument at the supermarket. This is how volatile our world is right now.

Has Peterson contributed ideas worthy of consideration and practice to a world burdened with cynicism, despair and sorrow? Absolutely. Did his tussle with 20 atheists enhance those ideas and practices? Absolutely not. 

Army veteran Dalton Boley has a paradise in Killen near the Tennessee state line. His next-door neighbor owns 10 acres of woodland, and she licenses the space behind her home to him. But Boley has intruders.

As outdated as many people probably think they are, Aristotle and the medievals were actually right.

This, perhaps, is the narrative we want to believe about ourselves, our jobs, our families, our country: that preparation is protection, that if we just work hard enough, hurt long enough, want it badly enough, we will be rewarded with certainty.

Perhaps it was the irresistibility of spring that drew me, or maybe the stress, but I walked the mountain yesterday. It had been a while, and somehow I lost my bearings.

In case we’ve forgotten, the chaos spreading from the Los Angeles riots to other cities around the nation shows once again that we live in a divided culture.

For 22 years, Alabama's capital city had a tough law-and-order mayor. Now, Los Angeles needs a mayor like Emory Folmar.

Nathaniel Ledbetter is not the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but he comes closer to it than anyone else in that role in Alabama's 205-year history.

In the proverbial garage scene, the father is doing more than just working on the car. He is working on a car that was made by engineers who actually wanted it to work for him and his family.

In Washington, debates rage over whether an “autopen” signed critical documents. Alabama faces a similar crisis: our legislators often allow others to vote on their behalf while absent from the State Capitol.