George Liele: The world’s first Baptist missionary

January 18, 2025

Feb. 2 is George Liele Church Planting, Evangelism and Missions Sunday.

Alabama’s education windfall: How lawmakers split $6.5 billion in supplemental funding

January 17, 2025

When Alabama lawmakers convene for the 2025 legislative session on Feb. 4, they’ll have $525 million in surplus Education Trust Fund tax revenue to allocate.

Resolution to Alabama’s stalled medical marijuana rollout could occur in ‘next few weeks’

January 17, 2025

Alabama’s stalled rollout of medical marijuana, which has been held up in court for well over a year due to litigation from companies denied licenses, may come to a resolution as soon as a few weeks …

Tinsley — longtime minister of music, youth, senior adults — dies at 75

January 17, 2025

David Earl Tinsley Sr., who served at First Baptist Church Headland, First Baptist Church Slocomb and Bellwood Baptist Church, died Jan. 12.

‘God already knows what’s there’: IMB explorer locates remote group, finds ‘God already at work’

January 16, 2025

Sometimes, finding unreached people groups means getting your truck stuck in a riverbed, driving 12 hours and traveling to village after village after village, asking if anyone knows anything about an unengaged and unreached people group.

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Supreme Court hears arguments on age verification law for adult websites

January 16, 2025

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday (Jan. 15) in a case involving a Texas law requiring adult websites to verify the age of their users.

15 inmates finish state’s new opioid treatment program

January 16, 2025

On Jan. 13, as 36 inmates graduated from the Alabama Department of Corrections’ Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program, something new was included — 15 of them had also participated in a new opioid-specific program.