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KELLY: Life is messy, but worth living

Life is messy. You try to tie it up into a neatly wrapped package, but instead it just ...

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MATHEWS: Painting the ol’ town with banners

By R.A. Mathews They called it “Painting the ol’ town red” when I was a youth minister — ...

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BROOKS: A Long-Standing Grudge

By Michael J. Brooks I thought about it last fall before a two-day hobby convention in September — ...

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DAYS GONE BYE: Barney Fife looks after South Marengo

I think I might have touched on this story twenty years or so ago, but whether I did ...

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Back to school gets here faster each year

Today is the last day of July, and guess what that means? Back to school. Yep, that’s right. ...

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KELLY: Handle it like Job

By Dean Kelly I wish I could handle things like Job did. This man recorded in the Bible ...

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MICHAEL BROOKS: A Hero Remembered

I enjoyed O.S. Hawkins’ new biography of legendary pastor W.A. Criswell, a role model for my generation of ...

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DAYS GONE BYE: Old MacDonald and that bunch 

By Tom Boggs Editor’s Note: This column was originally published April 24, 2002. You might recollect something I ...

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FAITH: Prince Michael and his commander

By R.A. Mathews The story reads like an epic fantasy novel. There’s a battle-scarred prince and his Commander. ...

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FAITH: According to what we have done

By Dean Kelly Reading was always my very favorite activity when I was growing up. I remember one ...

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FAITH: Dressing In our Sunday best

By Michael J. Brooks It was a church conflict in my early days over something that’s a “back ...

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Church News for May 15, 2024

By Melonee Coates Here are this week’s church events in the Marengo County area: The Livingston Alumnae Chapter ...

Faith and Family

KELLY: What Do I Do Now?

All the pain, all the troubles, all the fatigue she had felt vanishes into the air when caregivers ...

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REFLECTIONS: A Blast From The Past

Our pianist played a beautiful offertory arrangement a few weeks ago, as she always does. I found myself ...

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Starting to settle in

I’ve been living here in West Alabama for more than a month now, and I feel like I’m ...

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