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Monday, June 08, 2020

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  • FIRST-PERSON: It starts at home
    by Todd E. Brady, posted Monday, June 08, 2020 (3 years ago)

    "I can't draft national policies ... or write enough columns to change anybody's mind," Todd Brady says, "but I can ... teach what is right and good to the boys in my house." Read More

  • Officer charged in Floyd's death held on $1 million bail
    by Steve Karnowski, posted Monday, June 08, 2020 (3 years ago)

    Cedric Hohnstadt via AP
    MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A judge on Monday kept bail at $1 million for a former Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd's death.

    Derek Chauvin, 44, said little during an 11-minute hearing in which he appeared before Hennepin County Judge Jeannice M. Reding on closed-circuit television from the state's maximum security prison in Oak Park Heights. He wore a mask and handcuffs as he sat at a table, where he answered yes or no to routine housekeeping questions and confirmed the spelling of his name and address. He did not enter a plea, a step that usually comes later in Minnesota courts. Read More

  • Mississippi pastor finds car keyed with racial slur
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Monday, June 08, 2020 (3 years ago)

    Screen capture from WLBT.com
    CLINTON, Miss. (BP) -- Tiki Broome, interim student pastor at First Baptist Church of Yazoo City, Miss., woke up Tuesday morning, June 2, to find a racial slur keyed into the side of his car.

    Broome, who said he had been outspoken about racial injustice, had recently received some backlash via social media. But the defacement of his car, he told Jackson, Miss., television station WLBT, was another level. Read More

  • New details emerge in North Carolina pastor's death
    by Seth Brown/Biblical Recorder, posted Monday, June 08, 2020 (3 years ago)

    North Carolina pastor Jayson Rowe died by apparent suicide June 2, according to the Conway Police Department. Law enforcement officers were investigating an allegation of criminal sexual misconduct against Rowe when they received a call about his death Read More

  • Journeyman finds identity in the Lord during two-year term
    by Catherine Finch, posted Monday, June 08, 2020 (3 years ago)

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    NORTHERN BRAZIL (BP) -- When she was 16, Haylee Belcher felt called to serve overseas. As she read through the Bible, specifically passages like the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20), Haylee said she could not help but ask herself, "Where is God sending me?" Read More