http://bhamweekly.com/birmingham/articles.sec-63-1-inspire.html Sweet tea, smothered pork chops, fried green tomatoes, blackberry cobbler, okra, lima beans, hopping john, chow-chow pickle, tea cakes... these are only a few of the tasty delights you might find on a hunt for bon-a-fide southern cuisine. The list goes on and on.]]> What the discovery of the particle is supposed to reveal is existence of an invisible energy field that switched on a trillionth of a second after the big bang and provided the resistance that kept some bits of matter from moving around as freely as...]]> What the discovery of the particle is supposed to reveal is existence of an invisible energy field that switched on a trillionth of a second after the big bang and provided the resistance that kept some bits of matter from moving around as freely as...]]> After four tries my Sunday school class finally made it through Genesis Chapter One, albeit with several mysteries unsolved in our wake.]]> Our adversary ´mindset´ has become a way of life. We think of "us" verses "them" within our relationships between countries, between Republicans and Democrats, and between other competing segments of society. We celebrate these differences and revere debate as a method of communication and entertainment.]]> The son of a school teacher and bank cashier, he was the oldest of three red-headed boys. Cuba was the perfect place for adventure, exploring and experiencing life in an oldfashioned way.]]> At some point in all our lives, if we live long enough, we come to a point where we realize we are not ourselves. That we are living a life that falls squarely on the path that we thought we were supposed to be traveling. One that well-meaning parents and five (or more or less) years of college and the desire for more and more stuff paved for us.]]> You don´t usually come across a personal stylist and esthetician (that´s Greek for skin care treatment specialist) who happens to be a youth pastor on the days she´s not on set for TV serving as a hair and makeup artist. You don´t find that person often and not usually in Birmingham.]]> She went into 2012 with this single thought in mind...To be in the season I'm supposed to be in, in the season I'm supposed to be in it ~A friend once told her as she was about to turn 30, "You]]> In a celebration of India with its roots in the old Festival of Arts at Boutwell Auditorium that, like the Alabama School of Fine Arts, was originally orchestrated by Mrs. Edwin A. "Bill"� Rose, Supervisor of Speech Arts of the Birmingham Public Schools, the religion of India was highlighted at the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center in Pelham.]]> One of the speakers at last week´s Lenten Lunches sponsored by the Cathedral Church of the Advent had a surprising theme. The Reverend Canon Kendall Harmon, canon theologian of the diocese of South Carolina and editor of the Anglican Digest, was criticizing conservatives for their lack of civility in debating issues.]]> You may have heard of the most horrid person I ever met, otherwise known as the country girl. Funny, she first revealed herself in church, when it was time to go forward for communion she was afraid to leave her purse in the pew. I guess she feared that one of the doctors or stockbrokers at Cathedral Church of the Advent would steal it.]]> The photographs, paintings, and video images show torturers especially evil for delighting in cruelty. It shows good people afraid to do the right thing. It shows crass betrayals. It also shows people who took the risk and reached out to help. They are stories of survival that in the end prove that life is more than that.]]> Ash Wednesday marks the start of the Lenten season everywhere. In Birmingham it marks the beginning of the Lenten Lunch series at the Cathedral Church of the Advent downtown. And this truly is one of the best programs in the world, and I am not exaggerating.]]> I remember watching in awe as my mother and the other grown-ups took communion while I stood with my finger pressed to my lips as Father Hayes blessed me. I so desperately wanted to be a part of what I was being taught was a miraculous version of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, my savior.]]> Faith Fellowship Community of Trussville was helping out a family on Sun Valley Road in Centerpoint. While the house appeared intact, the insides were destroyed and second story will have to be removed. But the large wooded yard was destroyed with scores of trees down.]]>