SBC news nuggets 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. Jennifer Rash reports from outside the SBC Annual Meeting convention hall with some of the stories coming out of this year’s meeting in Dallas. Find out more HERE

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First person: How this photographer found God in the birds

July 25, 2026

I never expected to begin a new life at 63. For years I was known as a landscape photographer. My work had been exhibited, published and recognized, and I assumed that chapter of my creative life would simply continue.

Annual rodeo raises money for missions, ministry efforts

July 24, 2026

As grandstand lights illuminate the summer sky behind Polkville Baptist Church each June, thousands of spectators gather for an event that might seem unexpected for a local congregation: a professional rodeo.

Number of Americans seeing religion as positive influence is falling, study shows

July 24, 2026

Most U.S. adults believe the country would benefit from having a little more religion, but their number is falling.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak becomes fastest-spreading on record

July 24, 2026

Congo’s Ebola outbreak is the fastest-growing on record. The death toll has surpassed 1,000 fatalities in just over two months, according to the World Health Organization and Congo’s Ministry of Health.