The Bible stands firm

It was appropriate that the Mobile Press-Register featured comments about “The Da Vinci Code” on the same day they offered an article titled “Used book

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Watching theology

My reaction to the things I saw and heard in the churches I attended as a child was to become an atheist for 40 years.

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Talley Trio

Anthology Horizon The Talley name has long been associated with great music in southern gospel, reaching back to the ’80s, when Roger and Debra Talley

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The Browns

River of Love Independent The Browns are carrying on that most typical of southern gospel traditions — a family singing together. Mom Shelly sings lead,

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LeFevre Quartet

Legacy Song Garden Music Combine a famous southern gospel name (the LeFevres) with a much-talked-about new label (Song Garden Music) for interesting results. We didn’t

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Celebration Over 150 Years

Dorothy M. Morris, compiler. 151 pp. (Hardback). To order, call Mount Zion Baptist Church, Huntsville, 256-837-2665. This extraordinarily researched and quite well-written church history recounts

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Hootie on the Amazon

Jim Oliver. 154 pp. (Paperback). Order from author at 8154 Greyfield Drive, Montgomery, AL 36117-6900. Phone 334-396-1932. Quite frankly, this offering is a superb work

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Mayor on a Mission

Lambert Mims. Tamarac, Fla.: Llumina Press, 2005. 272 pp. (Paperback). This book, an autobiography of Mobile’s former mayor, is “a story of surrender, service and

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