Alan Cross is a Protecting Infants blogger who focuses on the social, cultural, political, and theological issues surrounding abortion and infanticide. He has worked as
a pastor at Gateway Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama since 2000 with a public emphasis on community development and racial reconciliation. Founder and Director of the non-profit, Community Development Initiatives, Alan has worked extensively with indigenous partners globally in North India and most recently in Haiti to help raise awareness and resources for orphan care and to develop value-based education models for spiritual, social, and economic development in impoverished communities. Alan blogs regularly at Downshoredrift.com and is completing a book on racial justice and the Evangelical church in the American South. He is married with four children.