by Gary Farley | Apr 25, 2005 | Opinion
The Rural Church Network met last week on the campus of the University of the South. This group, comprised of persons from national denominational offices and seminaries with responsibilities for rural church work and training, meets twice each year at various...
by Gary Farley | Apr 7, 2005 | Opinion
For several weeks our box at the post office has been stuffed with catalogs from garden seed and nursery companies. Beautiful pictures of vegetables, fruits, and flowers fill my mind and heart with great expectations. It would seem that after more than half a century...
by Gary Farley | Mar 7, 2005 | Opinion
This week began with the annual “Cattleman’s Association” banquet. About 200 attended from the farms and ranches of Pickens County, Alabama. Roast beef, of course, was served. As the leader of the other association in the county, the Baptist one, I...
by Gary Farley | Mar 1, 2005 | Opinion
I recently came across an interesting volume dealing with early church life among the Freedmen in the South. In 1895, just 30 years after the end of the Civil War and freedom, Dr. C. O. Boothe wrote and published Cyclopedia of Colored Baptists in Alabama. Boothe,...
by Gary Farley | Feb 8, 2005 | Opinion
Terry Billings is one of those fellows who has never done anything part way. He is known as a “full speed ahead” kind of man. He is this way about his business–meat processing and restaurant. He is this way about his family. And since last summer,...
