Diana Chandler

NEW ORLEANS (BP) – If you’re on neutral ground in New Orleans, it has nothing to do with nonpartisanship, but it’s that grassy middle area between roads – otherwise known as a median.

OKLAHOMA CITY (BP) – A Catholic diocese has won approval to open a charter school in Oklahoma slated to become the first publicly funded religious school in the nation amid concerns of separation of church and state.

NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Unified prayer and spiritual preparation are the intent of a new resource available in advance of the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

NASHVILLE (BP) – A federal district judge has ruled unconstitutional a Tennessee law prohibiting gender-bending drag performances in front of minors, which had been the only such law in the nation.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Alabama associational executive Neal Hughes was elected June 1 as chairman of the search team tasked with finding the next president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.

KHARTOUM, Sudan (BP) – At least 60 infants and children have died in a Khartoum orphanage since the civil conflict began in Sudan, the Associated Press reported May 31 amid an extended ceasefire to facilitate humanitarian aid.

VALLEY MILLS, Texas (BP) – “Mom,” Matthew Boggs called to his mother Angela as she mowed the lawn. He had picked up the mail from the box at the foot of the quarter-mile driveway as he walked his two sons Elijah and Grayson from the elementary school bus stop.

BIRMINGHAM, England (BP) – Richard Gamble admits he “was not massively into prayer” nearly 20 years ago when he received inspiration to build a public monument to a million answered prayers.

KYIV, Ukraine (BP) – One morning after air raid sirens alerted Kyiv of imminent attack, hundreds attended Central Baptist Church for Sunday worship. Southern Baptist evangelist Michael Gott was preaching.

South Carolina Baptists celebrate six-week abortion ban; Ten Commandments bill fails in Texas Legislature.