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Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead is making headlines following an incident on Sunday (September 18), wherein he forcefully grabbed a woman by the back of the neck for disrupting his live sermon, leading her out of the room. Whitehead first made the news in July when he and his wife were robbed of jewelry at gunpoint while he was preaching during … [Read more...] about Brooklyn Pastor Who Had Million Dollar Jewelry Stolen Arrested After Forcefully Grabbing Woman During Live Sermon

By Tom Strode NASHVILLE (BP) – The Baptist witness the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has long provided in the public square “is needed now as much as ever,” Brent Leatherwood said Wednesday (Sept. 14) in his first presidential report to the entity’s trustees. A day after the trustees elected him unanimously as the Southern Baptist entity’s ninth president, … [Read more...] about ERLC Trustees Hear From New President, Discuss Sexual Abuse Assessment

By Timothy Cockes ABINGDON, Va. (BP) – A former pastor in Abingdon, Va., was charged with multiple child sex crimes and arrested on Sept. 8. Michael Canter, a 38-year-old lifelong resident of the county, was the pastor of Valley View Baptist Church. Local police reports state the alleged sexual assault happened to an underage female member of the congregation at a … [Read more...] about Former Virginia Pastor Arrested, Charged With Multiple Sex Crimes

By Timothy Cockes SPINDALE, N.C. (BP) – Although it was difficult and painful, a North Carolina church is beginning to see the fruit of a challenging replant process that began more than two years ago. Lead Pastor Dale DuBose and wife Meriana met and married while attending Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary before moving to Spindale for Dale to become the youth … [Read more...] about North Carolina Church ‘Unrecognizable’ After Challenging Replant

By Brandon Porter EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to reflect the length of time Forest Park Baptist Church has hosted the first responders’ event. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (BP) – The early morning hours of the second Monday in September have been set aside for community outreach over the last twenty years at Forest Park Baptist Church in Bowling Green. The Iron Men, … [Read more...] about Kentucky Church Expresses Gratitude to Community Servants by Feeding First Responders