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Buddy Gray, pastor of Hunter Street Church, Hoover, has been named to the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s (ERLC) 2018 Leadership Council. He and JD Thorne, pastor of Point Mallard Parkway Church, Decatur, are the only Alabama Baptists serving on the 75-member council. Council members receive training from ERLC through events and conference calls. They provide counsel to commission staff and sometimes write for ERLC’s website.
Dustin Hammond is the new pastor of Uriah First Baptist Church.
“[I] can still picture the retired rocket scientist in Liberty overalls, pencil and pad in the front pocket, walking beside [me] saying, ‘being right doesn’t require proving the other person wrong.'” —Russell Klinner, Shocco Springs
Alabama students statewide posted modest year-over-year gains in English language arts and math, but dozens of individual schools saw much larger increases.
Three Christians were gunned down in one Nigerian state, and funerals were held for 30 individuals massacred in another state.
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