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In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to implement age-verification laws to protect minors is constitutional.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Compared to a decade ago, pastors have less training in counseling but are more hesitant to refer church members to professionals.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The United States Supreme Court ruled Friday (June 27) that a Texas law requiring age verification for adult websites is constitutional.

Years ago, I helped organize our church’s VBS and oversaw all the crafts. I spent hours finding ideas, cutting construction paper, and gathering all the supplies. I loved hearing parents’ comments on what their children brought home. But I can’t serve that way anymore; now I have to worry about even walking down the children’s hall, afraid I could get knocked down. At times now I feel useless.

DALLAS (BP) – Most Wednesdays, Chris Hilliard finalized plans for evening Bible study at the church he’s pastored in North Carolina for nearly a decade, but on the Wednesday of Feb. 12, he instead “tried to O.D. on medication,” he told Baptist Press.

February twelfth, two thousand and twenty-five. It will be a Wednesday that I will never forget even though there is much about that day I do not remember. A day that I often spent preparing and finalizing notes for an evening Bible study would instead see me in an ambulance and others fighting for my […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BP) – David Franklin is about as Georgia as you can get, from his drawl to his permanent smile as he makes his way among the churches in Bartow Baptist Association. As an associational mission strategist, he has developed a reputation for identifying needs and coming at them with a commonsense, biblical perspective.

WASHINGTON (BP) –Publishing or distributing sexually explicit material of a person without their consent is now a federal crime, and social media platforms and other websites must remove such images within 48 hours of notification.

I was sitting in church on Easter morning, my second Easter since my beloved wife of 35 years, Kay, passed away from pancreatic cancer almost two years ago. I was thinking of the hope I continue to find in Christ since her passing.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) – A bill requiring online platforms to take down nonconsensual intimate imagery within 48 hours brought a rare sign of Congressional solidarity, with nearly unanimous support for its passage.