by Colin Harris | Apr 22, 2019 | Opinion
The somber drama of Holy Week and the joyous celebration of Easter are past, with their annual re-engagement with the formative narrative of our tradition. Now is a good time to reflect on the question: “What does it mean to be an “Easter people” from this point...
by Mitch Randall | Apr 18, 2019 | Opinion
Shocked residents looked on in horror as flames and smoked billowed from the roof of the 800-year-old structure of the Notre Dame Cathedral. The iconic Paris landscape was forever changed as the beautiful spire collapsed inside the cathedral on Monday evening. As...
by Gary Farley | Jan 1, 2007 | Opinion
Last week three young friends, former college students with bright hopes for the future, stood in federal court in Birmingham, Ala., to plead guilty to setting a series of church fires last February. They were told to expect a minimum sentence of seven years in...
by Gary Farley | Mar 16, 2006 | Opinion
When word came last week that three college students from the Birmingham area had been arrested in relation to the church arson in our area, a great prayer of thanksgiving was raised. A month earlier four rural churches were set afire here in West Alabama’s...
by Bob Allen | Mar 10, 2006 | News
While federal investigators described the motive behind last month’s cluster of church fires in Alabama as a prank that got out of hand, some religious leaders were unconvinced. “When a church is burned and attacked in America, faith itself and religious...