by Gary Farley | Aug 19, 2013 | Opinion
Five days before Christmas 2012, the first inmates arrived at the Aliceville Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) work camp. This is a new federal prison for women in rural west Alabama. The work camp is for trustee-type prisoners who do janitorial, lawn care and...
by Gary Farley | Mar 17, 2009 | Opinion
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the first association of Baptist churches formed in what is now the United States of America. Inspired by a book by Paul Stripling, who outlines 10 Turning Points in the History of Baptist Associations in America, I offer my...
by Gary Farley | Nov 22, 2007 | Opinion
The nurse who greeted us in the emergency room was pleasant and efficient. I could not help noticing, however, the colorful tattoo on her right forearm. Below the tattoo were two additional figures, which looked like Chinese characters. Things were rather quiet and...
by Gary Farley | Feb 13, 2007 | Opinion
Fifty years ago when I got a Kodak pony and started shooting pictures for color slides, it was an expensive, “middle-class” kind of hobby. In the years since the pony was replaced with an Olympus SLR with a telephoto lens and by other technological...
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...
