In 2019, Kunkel met a young man at the airport who was conducting a survey. “I’ve done so many of these,” Kunkel said referring to the airport surveys. “And I thought, ‘Oh boy, here we go again.’”
“The state has improved in some child well-being data points, yet child poverty has remained unchanged for the last 20 years,” said Apreill Hartsfield, Alabama Kids Count director for VOICES.
During the Feb. 12 chapel session at the University of Mobile, students heard from Jamie Dew, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
The Education Recovery Scorecard, developed by researchers from Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth universities, indicates that Alabama has returned to pre-pandemic levels in math and is nearing that milestone in reading.
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“To be Thai is to be Buddhist” is a narrative Stephen Cox heard repeatedly when he first moved to Thailand and began learning Thai language and culture.
Edward Harbin served as pastor of Mount Ararat Baptist Church in Woodville for 46 years.
Westside Baptist in Tuscumbia lost its steeple when an EF-1 tornado ripped through the city late Feb. 15. Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers were at work in that city and ready to help elsewhere, including Kentucky and Tennessee.
