The Founding Four Churches: An Overview of Baptist Beginnings in Montgomery County, Alabama: The Year Was 1923, and Baptists of Alabama Were in a Celebratory MoodTheir state convention had been in business for one hundred years, and diligent plans were...Burton, Gary P....
The Works of Matthew Blue: Montgomery's First Historian (review) His essay on church history was published in 1851, and his early study of the organization of the city's churches was privately printed in 1878. Blue's history and genealogy of the Blue family appeared in 1886, two years ...
In heavily Catholic Pennsylvania, 40 bills have included changes in mandatory child sex abuse reporting laws over the past two decades. None of them has challenged the clergy-penitent privilege. That comes as no surprise to child sex abuse survivors and their advocates, who have seen ...
What she can say nearly four decades after she changed the course of U.S. history is that her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December, 1955, was an act of faith. “I felt the Lord would give me the strength to endure whatever I ha...
It’s a good two-hours’ drive from Birmingham, or nearly an hour from Montgomery. From Atlanta, allow three. But once here, you’ll find yourself in the center of the movement. The most striking sight is the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Even if you’ve never set foot in Alabama before, th...
Rosa Louise Parks, a woman of faith whose soft-spoken refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, launched the civil rights movement, was hailed widely last month at her death."Surely Mrs. Rosa Parks was sent to us by God, because few among us were so well prepared...