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Burl Cain, known for a much-heralded transformation at the "bloodiest prison in America," is retiring Jan. 1 after nearly 21 years as head of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
A church of inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola has received a unanimous vote into the Washington Baptist Association. Inmate pastor Paul Will is "overwhelmed and humbled by the fact that God has chosen to love and use the most broken of souls, in the most unlikely of circumstances to do such a marvelous work."
Kansas City Royals' Ben Zobrist, beyond clutch homers, is "a missionary" in pro sports, his pastor says. Zobrist will be at second base when the Royals open the World Series against the New York Mets tonight in Kansas City.
Messengers to the Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists increased the percentage of Cooperative Program receipts they will forward to Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries and affirmed both biblical marriage and the sanctity of life during the convention's annual meeting Oct. 12-13 at Blue Valley Baptist Church in Overland Park, Kan.
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary's board of trustees named Keith Whitfield as the new vice president for academic administration at its biannual meeting on Oct. 12.
Christian counselors should be able to speak lovingly and winsomely to people struggling with homosexual attraction, said evangelical leaders during the Oct. 5-7 homosexuality conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary archaeology team finds more Canaanite evidence at Tel Gezer in Israel, site of the largest known water system from the Middle Bronze Age in the Ancient Near East.
This week's "From the States" features articles from: Baptist and Reflector; Biblical Recorder
Vincent stood baffled in front of the numerous Bible translations at the Lifeway Christian Store on Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's campus. However, he soon experienced new birth.
Alan Chambers, the final president of the once prominent ex-gay organization Exodus International and former proponent of ex-gay therapy, documents his experiences both in his personal crisis of
