
Five years ago, Jasmine Faith Clisby, an English teacher and cheerleading coach at Carver High School, sounded the alarm over Pastor Chris Hodges, founder of the Church of the Highlands, “liking” social media posts by Charlie Kirk. This set off a chain of events that would leave some of Birmingham’s most needy without the support the church had been providing for years and seemingly cost the Birmingham School system hundreds of thousands of dollars in rental fees.

Despite wide publicity on social media and local TV, the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest “outside Church of the Highlands” appeared to only attract a few demonstrators on Sunday morning.

A group of protesters is planning to disrupt services at Church of the Highlands on Sunday over the recent detention of a suspected illegal alien.

The Church of the Highlands’ founding pastor, Chris Hodges, announced his retirement as head pastor to focus on the Highlands College after serving as its lead pastor since its founding in 2001.

A Texas megachurch pastor has resigned as an overseer to Church of the Highlands in Alabama following allegations he molested a child for years, starting in 1982.