Top headlines to know this week

Welcome to The Weekly, produced by TAB Media Group, which publishes The Alabama Baptist and The Baptist Paper. Each episode features news headlines read by TAB Media Group staff and volunteers. New episodes are released weekly on Wednesday mornings. Articles featured in this episode:

Prayer, persecution and the church

Baptists prepare to respond as Hurricane Melissa devastates Caribbean islands

Texans on Mission deployed to Jamaica; other DR volunteers on alert

State convention annual meeting set for Nov. 11–12

Reminders, updates related to meetings next week in Huntsville

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Legal updates regarding two SBC cases

December 4, 2025

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary remains dismissed from claims of defamation in a case involving the school and its former president,

Evangelist’s case goes before the Supreme Court

December 4, 2025

Authorities arrested Gabriel Olivier in 2021 after refusing to remain in a designated protest zone in Brandon, Mississippi.

Families file class-action suit to stop Ten Commandment displays

December 4, 2025

Eighteen families filed a class-action lawsuit Dec. 2 to stop the display of a prescribed version of the Ten Commandments in all classrooms of every Texas school district not already involved in related litigation or subject to an injunction.

First person: 15 ‘surprising’ goals to set for 2026

December 4, 2025

You might be already thinking about goals for the upcoming new year even though we’re a few weeks away from 2026, and I assume that some of those goals are related to your spiritual walk.