Regrettably, churches too often lose touch with the students they helped raise when they go away to school. Perhaps these ideas will help your church avoid that tendency.
Shades Crest Baptist Church in Hoover called Dustin Ratcliff as its new pastor May 17. Ratcliff has been serving since 2016 as a staff pastor
Our sanctuary may not be large, but it carries the weight of a couple generations of worship.
Seven-year-old J dances to the beat of her own drum — and she proved it even more during her city baseball league’s opening game in early May.
A major fire destroyed Victory Missionary Baptist Church in Birmingham today (May 15). The cause is currently unknown. The church has previously been through a blaze – in October 2025, it caught fire and suffered fire and water damage.
Christian Pakistani parents trying to prove that their abducted daughter is too young to marry saw her official birth record rejected by the country’s Federal Constitutional Court.
See some of the latest letters we’ve received at The Alabama Baptist.
Alabama Baptists are joining South Carolina Baptists in donating $1 million to the International Mission Board to be used for renovation of missionary housing at
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