Top 10 Religion stories of 2020: Covid disrupts church, Highlands hosts mass testing
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
Posted Dec 31, 2020
Sampey Memorial Baptist Church in Ramer, Ala., started a campaign this summer promoting Jesus 2020. (Photo by Ashley Remkus/AL.com)
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Organized religion, like many other bulwarks of the nation’s cultural establishment, was shaken to its core and transformed in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic.
That was Alabama’s top religion story of the year. Here are our top 10 religion stories in 2020:
COVID-19 disrupts church, forces worship online
The pandemic emptied sanctuaries and discontinued public in-person gathering for worship in March, even shutting down Easter Sunday. Churches then switched to online video services and many kept that focus through the end of the year as a safety precaution. Others returned by mid-summer and early fall with scaled-back, socially distanced in-person worship services. It was something the nation hadn’t
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Full of humour and heartbreak, this miniseries stars Tom Hollander (Baptiste), Saskia Reeves (Luther) and Sofie Gråbøl (The Killing). Connie and Douglas are set for a grand tour of Europe. It’s one last family holiday before their only son Albie leaves for university. But just days before departure, Connie announces she wants a divorce. They nonetheless continue with the trip in some of the world’s most beautiful cities – from Amsterdam and Paris, to Venice and Barcelona. Douglas sees this as a make-or-break chance to win Connie back and restore his troubled relationship with their teenage son. As love takes a detour, will Douglas get his marriage back on track? BBC FIRST & ON DEMAND
HBO filmmakers talk wild new ‘Alabama Snake’ documentary
Updated Dec 12, 2020;
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Which is why multiple books, onscreen depictions and countless news articles have covered the case.
But the stranger-than-fiction Summerford story has never been told like this.
A new HBO documentary, “Alabama Snake,” turns the case into a spellbinding Southern gothic film.
Director Theo Love and producer Bryan Storkel lay out the arc – and its characters’ complicated backstories – in a rich way that builds to edge-of-your-seat, this-can’t-get-any-weirder suspense.
In fact, “Alabama Snake,” which premiered Dec. 9, feels less like just another true-crime stream, and more like the best “True Detective” since season one’s Matthew McConaughey-starring epic.