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The Bible Gives Us a Voice From Below — David Gornoski
WeRockTV HomeGood NewsGood MusicGood Works Watch David Gornoski: History usually belongs to kings, conquerors, and powerful institutions. But the Bible tells a different story. Christian commentator David Gornoski challenges us to consider Scripture through the eyes of the forgotten, the persecuted, and the powerless. The Bible gives us something revolutionary: a voice from below. From…
How Lucky We Are: The Story of Mountain Brook
WeRockTV HomeGood NewsGood MusicGood Works Some places just feel like home the very minute you drive in. Mountain Brook is one of them. Back in the 1920s, a Birmingham developer named Robert Jemison Jr. looked at the wooded hills and creeks just over Red Mountain and saw something special. Instead of flattening the land, he…
Celebrating Alabama’s HBCUs at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Here’s something to be proud of, Birmingham. All 14 of Alabama’s historically Black colleges and universities are now permanently celebrated at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The exhibit honors their history, their culture, and everything they have given to our state and to the world. Think about what these schools have done. For generations, they…
Good Things Brewing at Birmingham City Hall
Here’s some good news for the Magic City. Birmingham’s leaders are working hard to make our neighborhoods better, and the plans they’re pushing could change a lot of lives for the good. First, they want to fix up run-down houses. Every city has a few homes that have been left empty for years, with broken…
For Ervin: “Got ‘Til It’s Gone”
Janet Jackson featuring Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell This one goes out to Ervin, my Uber driver. Good conversation and a good ride deserve a good song. Janet, Q-Tip, and a little “Big Yellow Taxi” from Joni seemed just right. Thanks for getting me there, Ervin.
Sacred Frequencies: The Sound of Creation — WeRockTV News
GOOD NEWS | GOOD MUSIC | GOOD WORKS What if the universe has a soundtrack? From the vibrations of a guitar string to the rhythms of the human heart, sound surrounds us. Throughout history, musicians, philosophers, scientists, and spiritual seekers have explored the relationship between vibration, mathematics, music, and creation. Today, renewed interest in so-called…
Barber Motorsports — Where Birmingham’s Imagination Gets Wheels
Some museums ask you to admire what stands still. Barber gives you that pleasure, then reminds you how beautifully these machines were built to move. Barber Motorsports Park and the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum bring engineering, history, art, and speed together in Birmingham’s backyard. It is the sort of place where someone can arrive interested…
Whether Tuberville or Jones, It’s Still About We the People
Somewhere along the way, Americans started treating elections like football games. Red jerseys. Blue jerseys. Winners. Losers. Everybody yelling at the referee. But what if we’re all playing for the same team? Whether Tommy Tuberville or Doug Jones wins, the people of Alabama will wake up the next morning wanting many of the same things.…
GOOD NEWS | We See Through a Glass, Darkly
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 There are moments when the world seems impossible to understand. Headlines collide. Families struggle. Friends disagree. We search for certainty, yet the more we learn, the more we recognize how much remains beyond our sight. The apostle Paul understood that tension. “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then…
The Cornerstone That Completes the Equation
In 1931, Kurt Gödel proved something that still humbles the smartest minds on earth. Any system of rules complex enough to do basic math will always contain truths it cannot prove from inside itself. Add more rules, and new unprovable truths appear. No system can complete itself. I believe that’s more than a lesson in…
Strangers Turn One Month’s Rent Into $146,000
Some people spend their whole lives making sure everyone else has a good night out. They tear the tickets, sweep the popcorn, and smile at strangers who never learn their names. Mary is one of those people. She has worked in movie theaters for more than forty-five years, and for most of that time the…
Every Sunrise, a Reminder
Every morning when the sun comes up, I give thanks. I face east and watch it rise, slow and certain, over Birmingham. There’s something about that first light breaking the dark that won’t let me rush past it. I think about how much Jesus did for all of us as the Prince of Peace, and…