In a 5-4 opinion, the high court found the administration acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner in revoking Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era policy to protect from deportation undocumented immigrants who arrived in this country before their 16th birthday.
Juneteenth, or June 19th, is the day in 1865 when enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, were informed by Union troops that they were free--901 days after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed! "I want to make people aware that our independence day was June 19th, 1865, not July 4th, 1776," Coleman said.
Speaking of the racial unrest across the U.S., K. Marshal Williams, pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, shared via Facebook Live, “It is imperative on the church today, especially cooperatively… all ethnicities and especially our brethren of the lightest hue” to speak against laws that contribute to institutional and systemic racism.
UPDATE (Sept. 22, 2020): The Baptist Resource Network has purchased the #Sparkcon2020 "associational" package of the entire conference to be able to give access to BRN churches after September 22. Churches now may view the entire library of Spark Conference videos, at…
Baptist Resource Network church leaders are invited to preview and take advantage of this free Georgia-hosted, one-day total church equipping online conference, premiering August 28, 2020.
Since the beginning of this year, meetings have been taking place to build connections between Georgia churches and churches in the Baptist Resource Network and other state conventions with the hope of encouraging strong missional relationships.
In the majority opinion regarding gay, transgender rights, Supreme Court justices acknowledged they were concerned about protecting free exercise of religion for employers but provided no assurances for those who act on their beliefs in hiring and firing.
The actions of some government officials over the past several weeks—treating churches worse than other groups—is simply indefensible. It’s also unconstitutional, and that’s why Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is standing alongside these churches.
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee elected its first African American chair in a special called meeting June 16.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a watershed decision on gay and transgender rights June 15 by finding longstanding, non-discrimination protections in federal workplace law cover "sexual orientation" and "gender identity."