A 12-year-old boy was sent home from school for wearing a T-shirt with a phrase that school officials told him made some other students feel “unsafe.” What was the phrase? “There are only two genders.” Liam Morrison, a student at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough, Mass., was pulled out of class by the school’s principal […]
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Metro East church plant hosts multiplication meeting
Pastors and church leaders from around the Metro East area gathered in Collinsville May 17 for the second Multiply Illinois Hub. These quarterly regional events are designed to encourage and equip those interested in church multiplication. Heights Community Church, planted in 2016, hosted the gathering in their newly renovated home. With the St. Louis skyline […]
Marshall marks 100
Retired pastor Frank Marshall celebrated his 100th birthday on April 21. IBSA Executive Director Nate Adams visited with him at First Baptist Church in Mt. Zion on May 1 and presented a personalized newspaper page from his birth year to mark the occasion. Marshall pastored his first church in 1948, Concord Baptist Church in rural […]
3 churches to appeal dismissal
Three churches have filed appeals of their dismissal from the SBC by the Executive Committee (EC) by the May 15 deadline and will take their cases to the messengers at the New Orleans annual meeting. Time for a vote has been allotted in the Tuesday afternoon session, June 13. Two churches were disfellowshipped for having […]
Stone campaigns on women and abuse issues, Barber is mostly quiet right now
The candidates for president of the Southern Baptist Convention are taking decidedly different approaches to the election in the short time before the SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans. The newcomer to the race, Mike Stone is on the road and raising his concerns about volatile issues facing the denomination, while the incumbent, Bart Barber, […]
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