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Do We Really Live in a Post-Truth World?
Special Feature With the truth twisting, emotional appeals, and personal attacks that characterized this last election season, Oxford Dictionaries selected “post-truth” as the word for 2016. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” …
Back yard Makeover with DSLD
Back Yard Makeover: DSLD Land Management Creates Usable, Beautiful Space Oris and John Nielson have lived in their Vestavia Hills home for 26 years. From day one, Oris says their backyard was a disaster. When the drought last year took out the large trees that gave the space its one redeeming quality, the Nielsons knew …
Rise Against Hunger
The Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church middle school youth group takes part in the Rise Against Hunger service project. 40,000 plus meals were assembled during the day long parish event.
OLS Spelling Bee
The Word Is… Fourth-grader Violetta Rohr recently won the Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School(OLS) spelling Bee. Second-grader Deezil Lukima placed second. The contest was broadcast on WOLS, the school-wide internal television network. Rohr represented OLS in the Homewood District Spelling Bee where she placed 3rd.
Photo Fun with Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School
Giving to Others Kindergarten students Robert Self and Corbin Agricola helped collect donations during Our Lady of Sorrows School’s Catholic Schools Week’s festivities to help a mission community in Ecuador. Students raised more than $5,000 during the week!
Are You Equipped to Fight the Parenting Battle?
Parenting Points Being a Christian parent in today’s world is more challenging than ever. We are in a battle for our children’s hearts and minds and the tools Satan has at his disposal are more cunning than ever. We are now all in “crisis” parenting as we fight to teach our children their identity in …
Premiere A Capella Group Performs in Birmingham
The 11-member a capella group Voctave has received more than 100 million views on their Facebook and YouTube videos and you can hear this incredibly talented group live on April 26 at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Homewood. The voices of the Central Florida group represent a wealth of diverse backgrounds and musical experiences and will perform …
Magnolia Festival Praises
Music Notes Named a Top Twenty Event by the Southeast Tourism Society, the Gardendale Magnolia Festival, April 20-21 will include some great family friendly entertainment and talent proclaiming God’s praises. Acoustic Gospel. Bentwood Revival will perform Friday Night at 7pm. These four artists, Faith Harper, Larry Bradford, Selwyn Spalding, and Charlotte Guffin, are all from …
6 Red Flags for Tax Auditors
Money Matters presented by: Vision Financial No one wants to see an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) auditor show up at his or her door. The IRS can’t audit every American’s tax return, so it relies on guidelines to select the ones most deserving of its attention. Here are six flags that may make your tax …
Living Your Values by Swinging a Hammer
Mission Makers Brought to you by: Community Partner Aho Architects, LLC, www.ahoarch.com April is National Volunteer Month, and in recognition of this issue’s theme of “Ways You Can Serve,” Community Partner Aho Architects, LLC would like to tell its story in the hope that it will encourage and inspire others to find similar ways to …
