“My goal with music is to lift up the good things, things like marriage, things like stopping and spending time with your wife and your kids,” Guy Penrod said.
In his five years as Samford’s coach, Bucky McMillan led the team to four 20-win seasons. Samford president Beck Taylor said they were “indebted” to him for “reestablishing the Samford men’s basketball program’s tradition of excellence.”
Isabel Shaw Andrews Triplitt died on March 23 in Columbus, Georgia. She was 101.
James Alexander Spicer Sr., pastor of Freedom Baptist Church in Selma for nearly three decades, died March 2. He was 87.
William E. “Bill” Broome Jr., a retired preacher, died March 6. He was 89. A Georgia native, Broome was called to preach at age 15, graduated
For years, Jack Still served as pastor of Mount Joy Baptist Church in Hanceville, Mount Zion Baptist Church in Cullman, First Baptist Church Fairfield and Elkton Road Baptist Church in Athens.
Throughout the years, the articles have profiled a wide range of theologians, pastors, missionaries, authors, hymn writers, educators and others who used their gifts and talents in the place and time they lived.
Before returning to Alabama in 2003, Mary Swedenburg served for 34 years in Japan with the International Mission Board.
