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Pastor Jimmy McGauley, 46 (L), was shot by his atheist cousin, 26-year-old veteran Ke’shawn Nesmith (R), after a heated discussion about Heaven and Hell. | Screenshot/WSB-TV; JSO Despite suffering injuries that could see him taking up to nine months to recover, a Georgia pastor has chosen to forgive a younger cousin who shot him during […]
Abigail Zwerner, 25. | Screenshot/GoFundMe The family of a 6-year-old boy who shot first-grade teacher Abigail Zwerner as she taught her class at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, earlier this month revealed that he has an “acute disability” and offered prayers for her recovery Thursday. “Our heart goes out to our son’s teacher […]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is being celebrated across America today, and for good reason. Here’s a brief synopsis of Dr. King’s life and legacy: he was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. He received a doctoral degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the […]
Isaiah 55:8-9 are among those verses that have taken on a life of their own in Christian circles: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts […]
Unmarked graves of enslaved people rest outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Bowie, Maryland. | Screenshot: NBC Washington Dozens of community members, assisted by Catholic University of America students, worked on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to identify the final resting places for hundreds of enslaved African Americans behind a chapel in Maryland. Community […]
The senior pastor of Tennessee’s Brentwood Baptist Church is resigning from the Nashville megachurch to focus on church planting. Glenn said he will be working on church planting. “I need to spend more time working with pastors, church planters, and leaders in Middle Tennessee,” he said. “I want to work with churches to plant new […]
Four Tennessee church members died Tuesday after a small plane crashed while approaching a Texas airport. | Screenshot/Fox 26 A Tennessee church has asked for prayers after four congregation members died in a small plane crash that also left the church’s senior pastor seriously injured. On Tuesday morning, a single-engine Piper PA-46 plane crashed south […]
Princeton University is considering a petition, signed by nearly 300 members of the campus community, to remove a statue of John Witherspoon. According to the petition, “paying such honor to someone who participated actively in the enslavement of human beings, and used his scholarly gifts to defend the practice, is today a distraction from […]
The National March for Life is tomorrow in Washington, DC., followed in two days by Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Both are timed to correspond with January 22, 1973, when the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision tragically discovered a right to abortion in the US Constitution. Since that time, more than sixty-three million (PDF) […]
A church in Brazil is mourning the loss of their pastor and his wife after they died last week attempting to save their teenage son from drowning at the beach. The incident occurred on January 10 at around 10 am, when 43-year-old pastor Felisberto Sampaio and his 42-year-old wife, Inalda Sampaio, saw their 13-year-old son, […]