- Journal of the Mississippi Baptist Convention since 1877 July 6, 2020

Explore the Bible: July 5

July 6, 2020

By Laura Lee Leathers Following God’s Design • Proverbs 5:3-11, 15-18 Farmers who raise livestock use fences of various types to mark off their property…

Concepts: Fitly Spoken

Concepts: Fitly Spoken

July 6, 2020

SBC Executive Committee elects Slade as its first African American chair

Slade

SBC Executive Committee elects Slade as its first African American chair

June 30, 2020

Forward, or backward?

Louisiana mandates Ten
Commandments be displayed
in all public schools by 2025
BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) – A specified Protestant version of the Ten Commandments must be displayed in all public schools in Louisiana by January 2025, the mandate of a bill Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law June 19. The law applies to all public elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools, from kindergarten through college and mandates a version of the Ten Commandments contrary to that used by Catholics, the largest religious group in the state. But the law does not apply to Catholic schools.

Explore the Bible: July 5

Concepts: Fitly Spoken

SBC Executive Committee elects Slade as its first African American chair

Forward, or backward?

Explore the Bible: June 28