Allen P. Ross is Beeson Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Beeson Divinity School at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. He was a member of the team that reviewed the ESV Bible translation.

Read a May 30, 2012, article from Reuters about the continuing discord in Alabama as a result of the strict immigration law implemented there in 2011.

The Economic Research Service offers state profiles that include income and poverty rates for rural and urban dwellers.

John Eidsmoe is an Alabama constitutional lawyer, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and author of Christianity and the Constitution: The Faith of Our Founding Fathers. He has advised former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Contact [email protected].

David R. Bains teaches the history of American Christianity at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala.

Dr. Mary Holley is a doctor in Arab, Ala., who founded a Christian-based support group called Mothers Against Meth-Amphetamine, or MAMa, in 2002 after her brother died of methamphetamine addiction. The group now has 75 chapters around the country. She has produced several educational videos for drug education and prevention and speaks in schools and jails. The group […]

Hernan Prado is the CEO of Hola Latino and the founder, president and CEO of the Alabama Latin American Association.

Randy Brinson is founder of Redeem the Vote and an advocate of “The Bible and Its Influence.” Contact Don Stillman. 

Read a Jan. 27, 2006, New York Times story about when Democrats in Alabama and Georgia introduced legislation to teach the Bible in public schools.