Decatur pastor’s book blends gospel, life in South

April 19, 2007

If there’s something funnier than living life in the skillet, then it might just be living life along a dirt road, according to Harold Fanning.

Despite blindness, Samford musician covers campus with carillon music for more than 30 years

April 12, 2007

It’s 4:29 Thursday afternoon and Steve Knight sits high above the Samford University campus in Birmingham, waiting. Blind since childhood, he slides a gold pocket

Alford to retire from work with literacy, language missions for Alabama Baptists

April 12, 2007

Sixteen years ago when Richard Alford joined the staff of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions (SBOM), he didn’t have to press 1 for

Former Alabama Baptist music minister commits suicide after sex-abuse charges

April 12, 2007

A former Alabama Baptist music minister shot and killed himself April 3 after being charged recently with sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl. Stephen Lyle "Steve"

Missionary in Denver seeks to win Russian Jews to Christ

April 12, 2007

Little Anatoliy Odnoralov often came home after school with a bloody nose — the result of just another day as a Christian at his school

Wood marks 10 years at Shades Mountain Baptist

April 5, 2007

Danny Wood recently marked 10 years as pastor of Shades Mountain Baptist Church, Vestavia Hills, in Birmingham Baptist Association. Called to Shades Mountain Baptist from

Grandson follows grandfather in New Bethlehem’s pulpit

April 5, 2007

Like most boys his age, then-12-year-old Mark Brown enjoyed spending long afternoons with his grandfather. In Brown’s case, those memories include visiting prospects for Presley