Post Tagged 'Alabama'

August 31, 2023

Hope and Opportunity for Formerly Incarcerated Women

Each year, over 80,000 women are released from state prisons. Within five years, around half of these women are predicted to return. Most of them experienced childhoods sabotaged by violence, sexual abuse, trauma, and broken families. Continue Reading...

October 06, 2011

Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth: Courage in Christ (1922 – 2011)

“They were trying to blow me into heaven, but God wanted me on Earth.” – Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth’s courage, tenacity, and epic struggle for racial equality in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, is legendary. Continue Reading...

May 18, 2011

Out of the Whirlwind: God’s Love and Christian Charity

My commentary is about the recovery efforts in the aftermath of the tornadoes that struck the South in late April. The focus of this piece is primarily what is going on in Alabama, but it is true for the entire region that was affected. Continue Reading...

May 11, 2011

Survivors Not Victims

This video was captured by Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa at Five Points Baptist Church in Northport, Alabama. Northport is just outside Tuscaloosa. Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa has been leading from the front during the tornadoes that decimated parts of Alabama. Continue Reading...

April 28, 2011

Christian Ministries and Southern Tornadoes

Here is the dramatic front page of The Birmingham News this morning with the headline “Day of Devastation.” It is imperative to highlight just some of the Christian responses to the tornadoes USA Today is reporting has now killed over 240 people. Continue Reading...

November 11, 2010

Veterans Day: E.B. Sledge and The Old Breed

The emotional scars and nightmares from Eugene Bondurant Sledge’s memories of the battles at Peleliu and Okinawa haunted him for years. He was among a company of men who didn’t talk about their feelings. Continue Reading...