We’ve been working through the book of Genesis at midweek Bible study in our church. It’s been refreshing to look at the old stories I learned as a child, and to consider them with more maturity and, I trust, more insight. Genesis 37 begins the Joseph chronicles that essentially take the remaining chapters of the book, but this saga is interrupted […]

This week's weather offered the perfect backdrop for a groundbreaking event on a long-awaited hotel project in downtown Huntsville.

Coffee lovers know the best cup is made with recently roasted beans—the fresher the better.

This week, I traveled to UAB hospital to visit a dear friend who had just undergone a significant surgery. On my way north on I-59, I passed an exit where a big red sign proudly announced a Krystal restaurant. We don’t have a Krystal in Guntersville, but I really wish we did. I stopped. As […]

John Kvach oversees a project that will create an expansive greenway system across north Alabama, connecting eight counties and 27 towns.

David McCullough, who died last August, gave us books about the Panama Canal, the Wright Brothers, the Brooklyn Bridge and the American Revolution, and won Pulitzers for “Truman” and “John Adams.” The latter was made into an HBO miniseries that earned 13 Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes. In a “behind the scenes” feature on […]

Birmingham's newest brewery has only been open for a couple months, but it’s already built a reputation thanks to its craft beer selection, space, and fun selection of games.

His efforts while at Alabama helped earn Ekiyor the 2023 Alabama Power Community Service Award at the Reese’s Senior Bowl.

Named a 2022 Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation, the recognition honors Decatur’s commitment to effective urban forest management.

The Super Bowl is in a matter of days. Leading up to that final game, every game was more important than any of the previous games of the year. To lose a playoff game is to end the entire season. When you lose, you go home. If you win, you take one more step toward […]

Instead of focusing solely on a restrictive diet, researchers at UAB found that motives can help predict one’s likelihood to lose weight.

Anthony Ricciardone is a farmer. Oysters are his crop, boutique bivalves that he and partner Chris Head grow in water off Fort Morgan.

Birmingham added another biscuit purveyor with the opening of Nashville-based, family-run breakfast and lunch spot Biscuit Love.

The recent sub-zero weather at Christmastime reminded me of the difficulties of weather-casting for churches, and how often we get it wrong. We planned an outdoor Easter worship during Covid spring, but church leaders decided on Good Friday that the forecast monsoon on Sunday would prevent this. However, Sunday came as a bright and sunny […]

But just because December has come and gone, that doesn’t mean the magic of the “most wonderful time of the year” has to follow suit. 

Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster Lauren Sisler joins Wellstone as the keynote speaker at the annual Beacon of Hope celebration.

Recently my wife, Denise, and I traveled to New York City to celebrate our 40 th wedding anniversary. Our anniversary is Dec. 17; her birthday is Dec. 27; and every year that we have been married they have put Christmas on Dec. 25! Yes, some would say I am a scheduling genius. We like going […]

Alabama Tourism Director and author Lee Sentell discusses his new book, “The Official United States Civil Rights Trail: What Happened Here Changed the World"

“I would talk to Martin and tell him that Birmingham was where it was at. We had been doing a thing that was the epitome of nonviolence”

Being called by his name, Christian, is surely the greatest motivation we have to strive for a life of integrity. 

Huntsville certainly has some journalists digging into why U.S. News & World Report named it the best place to live in the U.S.

Spc. Kevin L. Killens Jr. was awarded the Soldier’s Medal for risking his life to save another in the Wiregrass community.

Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God has not changed. He is the same God who performed miracles from the beginning, and He always will be. He sent Jesus to fulfill His promises. He left the Holy Spirit when Jesus went to be with the Father. Jesus said anyone who believes would do […]

Five hundred years ago, the theology of Protestant Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli was designated the official religion of Zurich. The rumblings of the Reformation were just starting. As education expanded, literacy allowed more people to read the Bible, increasing curiosity about theology. Families sent their best and brightest sons to become ordained priests. Seminaries become […]