By Denise George Special to The Alabama Baptist Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is coming. Almost overnight, Christian families are overwhelmed with advertisements for the
By Grace Thornton Correspondent, The Alabama Baptist The chains may not have fallen off that night, but the scales sure did, Glen Sandifer said. Sandifer,
Ronnie McCarson has been ministering to adults age 55 and up full time since 1993, and at least in some capacity since 1977. But he
According to the 2013 Adoption Attitudes Survey funded by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, 24 percent of American adults have considered adoption. That translates
NATIONAL ADOPTION DAY — NOV. 19 National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the more than 100,000 children in foster
There’s no way around it: The Church is shrinking, and it’s aging. And with the growing number of unchurched young people, churches may be inclined
Nobody needs a psychiatrist to explain what shame feels like — we all know, said Curt Thompson, a noted psychiatrist and brain science researcher. “Having
By Carrie Brown McWhorter Correspondent, The Alabama Baptist There may be more millennials than Baby Boomers alive today, but Americans 65 and older remain a
