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Austin Hamilton is the new minister of music of Siluria Church, Alabaster. He previously served as the music ministry intern at First Church, Huntsvillle. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, and is currently enrolled in a master’s program at Samford University in Birmingham. Michael J. Brooks is pastor.
It will stir your patriotism — not in a chest-thumping way, but in a thoughtful, hope-filled way, and leave you grateful for America’s heritage as it celebrates its 250th birthday.
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which was signed July 4, 1776.
Every year around the Fourth of July, especially this year on our semiquincentennial, the same conversation ensues. Someone observes that America has lost her moral compass. Another laments the decline of biblical values. Before long …
A life-size cutout of Gov. Kay Ivey, surrounded by pictures of state landmarks, greets visitors to “Sweet Home Alabama” at the Great American State Fair in Washington.
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