Fighting crime and illegal immigration will be among the top issues in the Alabama Legislature’s more than three-month regular session that started Tuesday (Feb. 4).
In its last meeting before the 2025 legislative session, the Alabama Veterans Mental Health Steering Committee approved three preliminary recommendations they want lawmakers to adopt this year.
Baptist Health Foundation, a faith-based nonprofit, announced in a press release Feb. 3 that it has a new logo that reaffirms its commitment as a partner to Baptist Health System.
Eric Mackey has long argued that students should not use cell phones in school, pointing to schools with bans that have reported significant improvements in behavior and academics.
Alabama Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, has reintroduced a bill that would establish a tax credit program that could provide up to $30 million a year to the state’s struggling rural hospitals.
Sammy Gilbreath said if a pastor woke up on Sunday morning and God told him, “Today is going to be Joe’s last Sunday,” he bets the message and invitation “would have a sense of urgency about it.”
Jim Shaddix was a senior professor of preaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and served as pastor of teaching/training at The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham from 2012 to 2015.
While Alabama was slow to embrace school choice, in the past decade, lawmakers have expanded choices beyond traditional public, private and homeschool options to multiple choices among programs, offering families greater flexibility.
