At the end of 2019, Tommy Smothers retired as pastor of New Friendship Baptist Church, Somerville, where he served for 35 years. After being licensed
By Lanell Downs Smith Correspondent, The Alabama Baptist Choctaw and Washington Baptist associations presented the evangelistic drama Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames on Nov. 3–6
On Dec. 1, 2019, a band of assailants opened fire on worshippers at a small-town Protestant church in Burkina Faso, an impoverished West African country
By Martha Simmons Correspondent, The Alabama Baptist Along the cafeteria-style food line at Drexell & Honeybee’s, you’ll see plenty of soul-satisfying Southern fare that changes
By Doug Wilson Special to The Alabama Baptist Church safety should be a priority for all churches. With more frequency, there are incidents involving churches
By Chris Palusky President and CEO, Bethany Christian Services News reports [in December] told of a 2-year-old boy who was left at a Mississippi Goodwill
Each year for the past nearly 30 years, the Southern Christian Writers Conference (SCWC) has nurtured and encouraged writers of all ages and genres. Whether
More than a decade ago Liam Remington, an International Mission Board (IMB) representative new to the missions field, found himself in a riverside town in
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