John L. Yeats

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)–The property insurance market has changed in the three years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita blew through the Gulf Coast — and Hurricanes Gustav and Ike are unveiling the extent of those changes. During hurricane season, from June to November, every coastal state from Texas to Maine could be hit by a storm. […]

NEW ORLEANS (BP)--From the moment I topped the levy, I could see that worship at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church would be extraordinary.

JENA, La. (BP)–The revival that began Feb. 17 in Jena, La., continues this week, April 7-11, and may conclude during its eighth week -– a biblical number for “new beginnings.” “In the Bible, the number eight represents new beginnings,” L&A Baptist Church pastor Jimmy Ray Young said. “I believe that God has brought us to […]

ANGOLA, La. (BP)--The inmate, seeing a visitor's Southern Baptist nametag, said, "Thank you, thank you, please tell Southern Baptists thank you.       "When I see the hands of men raised in worship, I know these are the same hands that held a rape victim, the same hands that held stolen goods, the same hands that held the murderous gun," the inmate continued.

JENA, La. (BP)--The revival that began Feb. 17 in Jena, La., is moving into the heart of the black community as it enters its seventh week.

JENA, La. (BP)--If you have not heard, the Lord is doing something extraordinary in Jena, La., population 2,971.

JENA, La. (BP)--On a recent Wednesday evening, as my colleague placed his 15th baptismal candidate under the water, I received an e-mail from a national convention executive asking how the experience of the Jena revival could be replicated in his part of the country.

JENA, La. (BP)--On Sept. 20 of last year, more than 20,000 people from across the nation gathered in small Jena, La., to protest an outbreak of racial tensions at the local high school, exposing old feelings of racism and hate.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--A commentator compiled a parody about why people continue to read newsprint. He listed: doing the crossword puzzles; reading the funnies every day; finding out who died; reading about the school board and public library board actions; doing the Jumble; working the WonderWord puzzle.

ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)–In 2007, state Baptist papers’ total circulation dropped below the 1 million mark for the first time. Since 1953, state conventions affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention had an overall circulation of more than 1 million (as calculated by totaling the average distribution per issue for the various weekly, twice-monthly and monthly editions). […]