By Emily Williams-Robertshaw Jim Davenport’s Pizza Palace officials on July 8 announced via social media that the company will be opening a second location, at the Vestavia City Center. In less than 24 hours, the announcement had gathered hundreds of likes on Instagram and Facebook. It should be no surprise, as the original restaurant has been a fixture in Mountain Brook … [Read more...]

By Emily Williams-Robertshaw Shades Mountain Baptist Church has spent the past 24 years with the Rev. Danny Wood at the helm. But a new senior pastor is coming to the church after Woods’ retirement and will be joining the staff Aug. 16. The Rev. George Wright is joining Shades Mountain from Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, where he had pastored for the past … [Read more...]

George Wright was selected as the next senior pastor at Shades Mountain Baptist Church in a church business meeting on June 27. He will join the church staff on Aug. 16 and will give his first sermon on Sept. 12.  Wright’s appointment as senior pastor concludes a six-month search process for Shades Mountain. Following Dr. Danny Wood’s retirement announcement on Jan. 10, … [Read more...]

By Rubin E. Grant The Rev. Kevin Long wasn’t thinking about leaving the Pittsburgh church he had pastored for almost 10 years to head South. But he had made a commitment to listen to any church that called him about becoming its pastor and to listen to the Holy Spirit. So when Independent Presbyterian Church in Birmingham called, Long listened. Following an eight-month … [Read more...]

By Emily Williams-Robertshaw Former U.S. Army Sgt. Noah Galloway, a Birmingham native, will serve as an honorary co-chairman for the The World Games 2022. The appointment was announced during a ceremony at the Lakeshore Foundation on June 3. As an honorary chairman, Galloway, who lost the majority of his left arm and left leg during an IED attack while serving in Iraq, made a … [Read more...]