Sheppard shares her experience in the film Emanuel, in theaters two nights only June 17 and 19. The film tells the story of the massacre against the backdrop of Charleston, S.C., race relations, the historical importance of the church to African Americans, and lessons in forgiveness that resonated internationally after the crime.

06/11/2019 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

Hate crime charges have been filed against a white man accused of arson that destroyed three Louisiana black Baptist churches.

04/12/2019 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

About 100 investigators are working to find who is behind a series of church fires that have struck rural areas of Louisiana in recent weeks.

04/10/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

The archives of the late evangelist Billy Graham will be moved from Wheaton College in Illinois to the library named after him in North Carolina.

04/03/2019 - By Adelle M. Banks / Religion News Service

According to a new LifeWay Research study, the majority of pastors oppose sports betting and its legalization. If sports betting is legalized in their state, pastors are ready to respond.

03/19/2019 - By Aaron Earls / LifeWay

Ministers breathe a sigh of relief as the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upholds the housing allowance.

03/18/2019 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

Advocates on both sides of a case involving a 40-foot cross on government land agreed the Supreme Court appears open to considering different tests to recognize unconstitutional government establishment of religion, but they drew different conclusions.

03/01/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

Consumer advocates and predatory lending opponents expressed alarm about a proposed rollback of regulation designed to protect vulnerable borrowers from escalating debt.

02/07/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty joined in a friend-of-the-court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling that a 40-foot cross on government land violates the U.S. Constitution.

02/05/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

A New Mexico assisted suicide bill that has been described as “devastating” to the sanctity of life is drawing opposition from Baptists and other groups in the state.

01/30/2019 - By David Roach / Baptist Press

A recent U.S. Department of Justice opinion could strengthen the federal prohibition of online gambling across state lines.

01/25/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services granted a waiver that allows a South Carolina children’s ministry to participate in a government-funded foster-care program, even though the agency places children exclusively with Christian families.

01/24/2019 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor