Driving along the AL-34 highway westwards, the willow oaks and loblolly pines give way to an old iron bridge. Suddenly, a vast and sweeping panorama of the Coosa River opens up for miles in all directions, the water a flat mirror of the cloudless sky. This is Alabama and the American South at its most shatteringly … Read more
The US state of Alabama has executed a convicted murderer using the method of nitrogen asphyxiation. This is the first time that the method of capital punishment has been used in the country. Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted in 1989 for murdering a pastor’s wife in a killing-for-hire. Smith had appealed to the US Supreme … Read more
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Saturday, December 09, 2023 The Called Annual Conference Session of the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church, which was held at Anderson United Methodist Church of Jackson, Mississippi, on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. | Screengrab: YouTube/Mississippi United Methodist Conference The United Methodist Church has approved the disaffiliation of … Read more
