About Alabama — Fourth-grade Reading Gains

November 8, 2007

Alabama’s average fourth-grade reading score increased more than the average score of any other state on a recent national test. A sample of public school

Illegal immigrants

November 8, 2007

It is hard to believe that among church members there are people who cannot see that most illegal immigrants here are also Christians. I recently

Thoughts — Pray for Alabama Baptists’ Annual Meeting

November 8, 2007

By Editor Bob Terry The week before Thanksgiving, Alabama Baptists regularly gather for their annual meeting. The two-day event — this year set for Nov.

A Difference Between Words and Reality

November 1, 2007

Those who love peace had to rejoice at the recent letter released by 138 Muslim scholars and clerics titled “A Common Word Between Us and

Celebrating the ‘Increase’

October 25, 2007

In 1 Corinthians 3:6, the apostle Paul makes his point in pithy terms. He declares, “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.” Dependence

In young leaders’ hands

October 25, 2007

Amen, Amen, Amen in response to the editorial “Don’t Sever This Relationship” concerning the Cooperative Program (Oct. 4 issue). Forty-one years ago, I enrolled in

Islamic Imperialism: A History

October 18, 2007

Efraim Karsh. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. 230 pp. (Paperback). This quite informative and challenging book is “an impeccable history of how the