Samuel Smith

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  Apr 11, 2018

  Ryan Bomberger Shares How White Parents Defied 'Racist' Decree to Adopt 10 Racially Diverse Babies

  Pro-life activist and Emmy Award-winning creative professional Ryan Bomberger opened up Monday about the personal sacrifice that his white adoptive mother and father had to make when they decided to bring him into their family as a 6-week-old biracial child conceived in rape.

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  Apr 10, 2018

  Franklin Graham, Religious Freedom Advocates Urge Senate to Confirm Pompeo as Sec. of State

  Leading evangelist Franklin Graham and 49 other religious freedom advocates are urging the U.S. Senate to quickly confirm President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo.

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  Apr 10, 2018

  Missionary Says God Used Year-Long Abduction to Plant Seeds That Helped Bring Captors to Christ

  Over 15 years after she was rescued from a year-long abduction by Islamic terrorists in a Philippine jungle, Kansas missionary Gracia Burnham says her time in captivity showed her how faithless she was as she couldn't see the bigger plan that God had for her time of trial.

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  Apr 10, 2018

  Voters Back Transgender Bathrooms for First Time in Anchorage

  Voters in the largest city in Alaska have rejected a proposition that would have made it so people would have to use bathrooms and changing areas that correspond with their biological sex and would have allowed businesses and private organizations establish their own bathroom policies.

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  Apr 10, 2018

  Banning Adoption Agencies That Don't Serve LGBT Couples Hurts Foster Kids, Expert Says

  Efforts to "eliminate" faith-based adoption agencies that don't place children with same-sex couples are "not in the best interest" of kids stuck in the nation's foster care systems, Chuck Johnson, president of the nonpartisan National Council for Adoption, warned Monday.

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  Apr 8, 2018

  Christian Missionary Details His Time in Sudanese Prison, Sharing a Cell With ISIS Members

  Czech missionary Petr Jasek shared Saturday how God spared him from waterboard torture at the hands of Islamic State extremists and eventually used him to lead fellow inmates to Christ during his 14-month imprisonment in Sudan.

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  Apr 7, 2018

  ERLC Scholar Tells Christians 'Freedom' Shouldn't Be Their Main Political Value

  Southern Baptist scholar and author Jonathan Leeman is encouraging Christians to "rethink" the way they engage in the public square and urging them not to lift up certain gifts from God, such as the gift of freedom, higher than God Himself.

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  Apr 7, 2018

  Most Pastors Say Their Churches Never Discipline Members for Sinful Misconduct, Survey Finds

  Protestant churches in the United States rarely reprimand their members for misconduct as a survey indicates that more than half of pastors say they don't know of an instance in which their church has disciplined a member.

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  Apr 6, 2018

  Baptist Association Becomes First in SBC to Expel Church for 'UnChristian' Racist Attitudes

  On the eve of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, a Baptist association in Georgia held a historic vote to expel a longtime member church because of alleged racist attitudes and actions.

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  Apr 6, 2018

  Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee Names Augie Boto Interim President

  The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee on Tuesday named attorney D. August "Augie" Boto as its interim president following the retirement of former president Frank Page last month due to an "inappropriate relationship."