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:

‘Cautious optimism’: Worship attendance at churches up for the 1st time in decades

State Board of Missions to help with IMB learning center renovations; search team assessing ‘thoroughbreds’

Opinion: Pondering how to understand the coming ‘truth and unity’ SBC amendment

Ideas for Christians to celebrate Independence Day

Lass Words: Mad at God?

UM recognizes more than 300 graduates; Lance receives doctor of humane letters

New Baptist campus ministers headed to UAB, UNA

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Mother’s faith grows amid ‘deepest grief’ after son’s murder

May 28, 2026

The morning after her son was killed, Katrina Leonard knew only one thing: She had to go to church.

Teaching resource for Lifeway’s Explore the Bible lesson for May 31

May 28, 2026

Ideas and questions to help group members and leaders study and teach Matthew 27:27–54

Updated code of practice addresses gender confusion in England

May 28, 2026

In a move that could reshape how public services, businesses and charities across Great Britain operate, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has released an updated Code of Practice.

Opinion: ‘I am the 1% used 100% of the time to justify abortion’

May 28, 2026

“You should have been aborted!” The Harvard student yelled this in my face while I was visiting the campus for a forum on abortion in the black community. It wasn’t the first time someone had said this to me, and it wouldn’t be the last.