Fair trade impacts lives through purchases

May 14, 2009

By Martine G. Bates A woman in Alabama buys a beautiful candleholder as a gift for a friend. It pleases the giver and the receiver.

State Bible Drill results

May 14, 2009

Students from across the state gathered at Taylor Road Baptist Church, Montgomery, for the Bible Drill and Speakers Tournament state finals April 25. According to

Etowah Baptists to build Habitat home

May 14, 2009

It was a mudslide of a morning the day that Yolanda Enoh picked up a shovel and broke ground on her family’s house — house

St. Clair County electronic bingo gambling saga continues

May 14, 2009

For the moment, electronic bingo gambling machines could operate in St. Clair County if a gambling operation has a business license and bingo permit from

Moundville’s Pleasant Hill Church worships on church property 19 days after arson attack

May 14, 2009

On the night of April 14, Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Moundville, in Hale Baptist Association was destroyed by fire. On May 3 — after only

Sweet Home Alabama bill dies in state Legislature

May 14, 2009

The pressure to pass large-scale electronic bingo gambling legislation was intense during the Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature, which ends May 15, but opponents

What Might Have Been

May 14, 2009

Alabama and Missouri have very different state Baptist conventions. Yet both faced the same important issue — how to relate to entities sponsored by the