In this week’s issue of TAB News, we talk with Pastor Mickey Bell about his new book “I Am David: A Pastor’s Fall Into Grace” and the journey that brought him to sharing his restoration story so publicly.

Joining Mickey are two of the ministers who walked with him along the year-long restoration journey. They will help us understand the importance of repentance, redemption, restoration and reconciliation in the life of a believer who has fallen and how fellow believers can be part of the healing

November 6 is election day, andthere will be two statewide amendments which are of special interest to many people of faith. Amendment 1 would allow display of the Ten Commandments alongside other historical documents. Amendment 2 focuses on the importance of unborn life and the rights of unborn children, abortion rights and public funds for abortions.

This week we are going to examine the issues more closely with Parker Snider of Alabama Policy Institute.

This week’s issue of TAB News focuses on burnout and cynicism and how they are occupational hazards of those serving in Christian ministry positions.

Veteran Christian communicators Margaret Dempsey Colson and Doug Rogers, who have both served in Baptist ministry positions for more than 25 years, share about their personal experiences and reasons burnout and cynicism creep in to our lives.

They offer tips and tricks for combatting burnout while also finding ways to avoid bec

This week we focus on healthy transitions in leadership and life at any stage in professional life. Author, executive leadership coach and professional facilitator Michael Alan Tate shares his insights on strategy, staying on point and seeking a mentor with experience. He also tells us about his new book The White Shirt: Find Your Peaceful and Life-giving Career at Any Stage in Life. For more information, visit michaelalantate.com or whiteshirtbook.com.

How do faith and politics intersect in today’s world and how does this intersection impact us as people of faith? Michele Margolis, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, will help us answer that question. She also tells us about her new book, “From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity,” which focuses on her research and findings that partisan identities can profoundly shape identification with and engagement in the religious s

This week’s TAB News focuses on keeping your faith and moving forward following a crisis, be it a loss of a job, marriage or loved one, or a difficult life transition. It also could be that you are experiencing a life-changing illness or a natural disaster. Such crises could lead to a crisis of faith. Each of those crises will typically involve grief at losing the life you once had. It really is about moving forward—not moving on—and learning to hold tightly to God in the midst of the crisis.

We talk with Bill and Rondie Wilks about the importance of disciple making. Bill and Rondie share about the new D-Life Legacy & Leadership Track and how it introduces ministry leaders and their spouses to a simple, biblical and reproducible disciple-making process modeled after Jesus and His six practices of discipleship. We also talk about what happens at the end of the 13 weeks and how all believers can learn to live a life of disciple making. Visit www.livethedlife.com for more.

Welcome to the TAB News Podcast, brought to you by The Alabama Baptist. An estimated 5.7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, and 16 million family members and friends are providing care for them, usually at home and almost always unpaid. Care partners face their own challenges. Guests on this week’s TAB News share tips and resources available to care partners and those who know people who are caring for loved ones with a form of dementia.

In this week’s episode of TAB News, we talk with Nicaraguan Christian leaders Omar Alvarado and Felix Ryiz about the unrest taking place in their country.

Tens of thousands of citizens have fled Nicaragua in recent months as political and civil tensions have boiled over in the Central American country. In early August, the Miami Herald reported that doctors, ministers, and others who are trying to help wounded protesters and mediate conflicts are being arrested and jailed.

In this bonus episode of TAB News, we feature two back-to-school related topics.

The first segment discusses the rising popularity of eSports, how it is now an officially sanctioned sports league in high schools in several states, and missions and ministry opportunities.

The second segment features the new Christian Ministry degree program at Samford University in Birmingham and Samford’s Ministry Training Institute for nontraditional students.