“I do not like to be called a Christian magician,” David Garrard, a retired children’s minister and magician from St. Matthews Baptist Church in Louisville, says. “I’m a magician who is a Christian.”
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Former Miss America weds same-sex partner
Former Miss America Deidre Downs Gunn, a graduate of Baptist-affiliated Samford University, married her girlfriend in a ceremony in Birmingham, Ala., an event covered exclusively by People magazine.
Samford forfeits Baptist funds but pulls plug on student gay-straight alliance
After forfeiting $3 million a year in institutional funding from the Alabama Baptist State Convention, the president of Samford University announced he will not seek formal recognition of a student group dedicated to the discussion of LGBTQ issues and human…
LGBT-friendly student group sets up possible showdown between Samford and Alabama Baptists
Trustees of Baptist-affiliated Samford University are poised to vote on an officially sanctioned gay-straight alliance recommended by students and faculty, setting up potential conflict with the Alabama Baptist Convention. The convention’s State Board of Missions met behind closed doors May…
No more Samaritanizing
When we Samaritanize others we imply that they are fatally flawed by identities like their race or religion, their ethnicity or their uniforms, and thus are unworthy of care, understanding or perhaps even life itself.
Samford students inspired Baptist ministry along the Rio Grande
By Jack Brymer A new book by Myralyn Allgood, professor emerita of Spanish at Samford University, celebrates the long-term role of students from an Alabama Baptist school in Texas Baptists’ ministry along the Rio Grande. Nearly 40 years ago, Allgood…
Samford buys property to expand health care programs
By Bob Allen Baptist-affiliated Samford University has purchased property adjacent to its campus in Birmingham, Ala., from Time, Inc., so it can relocate its College of Health Sciences. Southern Progress Corp., a Time subsidiary, decided last year to sell the…
More Baptists hitting the gridiron
By Jeff Brumley The excitement around Mercer University football, which resumes Saturday after a 72-year hiatus, has been off the charts. Season tickets sold out long ago and the stadium was redesigned mid-construction to add thousands of extra seats. Athletic…