It has been quite some time since we gave you an update on progress at Duck River. For the uninitiated, Duck River Ranch is a property about an hour north of Birmingham, Alabama. We have been developing it for more than a year. (You can read the introductory blog here.) Read more
Brantley, Alabama, population 809, isn’t known for much. Indeed, I have spent most of my life in Alabama and had never heard of it. I mean this as no slight. I am not a big city snob, and I love America’s small towns that, collectively, go far to defining this Read more
Nigerian Bishop Jwan Zhumbes has had a difficult time. Many of you will know that he came to this country at our invitation to address Christian persecution. While here, he complained of stomach pains and so we had him examined by a GI specialist. Much to our shock, he was Read more
We love college football. We are from the South and that means we simply cannot help it. Sweet tea, BBQ, and football are all in our DNA. This is the best playoff field since the beginning of the playoff system. For the last three years all of the talk going into the season Read more
Nigerian Bishop Zhumbes receives grim news from home … and a grim diagnosis in Birmingham, Alabama A Christian hospital and its physicians exhibit “the grace effect” How should we respond to our own suffering? Is suffering a legitimate reason to reject belief in God? The development of our souls I Read more
I returned to Birmingham, Alabama from Oxford, England and hit the ground running. John Lennox had expressed openness to my invitation but he had made no commitments. Before he would do so, he wanted me to demonstrate that I was “serious” about what I had proposed…
I have always said that the backstory to the debates between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox, four in all, is at least as interesting as the debates themselves, if not more so. For every minute that they spent with each other on stage – Richard certainly would not tolerate John’s company anywhere else – I spent many more with each of them off stage…