This weekend Flatline Church at Chisholm is hosting a men’s conference, and Pastor Dewayne Rembert said it couldn’t come at a more critical time. “Our communities face unprecedented challenges … that demand the rise of strong, godly men.”
Emmett Roper, a longtime Alabama Baptist evangelist, died Jan. 11. He was 88. Roper, who called himself “a country preacher,” served in ministry for more than 60 years as a pastor, bivocational pastor, evangelist and author.
Alabama high school students may soon be required to learn about violence prevention, conflict resolution and mediation before graduating if a bill proposed by Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, becomes law.
Alabama Sen. Gerald Allen, R-Tuscaloosa, is hoping to increase penalties for Alabamians who threaten to release sexually explicit material of another person as means of extortion, a practice sometimes referred to as “revenge pornography.”
The Alabama Department of Human Resources is no longer restoring Alabamians’ stolen food stamps after Congress, in its stopgap spending bill signed by President Joe Biden last week …
A new tax credit for Alabama employers who help provide child care for eligible employees went into effect Wednesday (Jan. 1) and companies will soon be able to apply for a credit of up to $600,000.
Alabama’s prison system, which has been plagued with violent conditions and drug use due to understaffing and crowding, saw significant signs of improvement in 2024,
James Sampley served as pastor of FBC Ashville from 1996 to 2013 and of James Memorial Baptist Church in Gadsden from 1981 to 1987. He also served as pastor of Faith Baptist Church in West Blocton while he was a student at Samford.
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