Stories tagged with: mississippi baptists

• Mississippi Baptists ask Legislature to remove Confederate symbol from state flag

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, June 23, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON (BP) -- Offering a "voice of healing in the name of Jesus Christ," Mississippi Baptists asked the Legislature Tuesday (June 23) to replace the state flag with a design that does not include the Confederate flag.

  National racial tension and discussions regarding the flag in recent days prompted the move, Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB) Executive Director and Treasurer Shawn Parker said in a press conference today in Jackson. Read More

• In Miss., worship & dialogue bridge racial lines

  by William H. Perkins Jr./Mississippi Baptist Record, posted Friday, September 25, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Baptists in Mississippi stepped to the fore in worship and dialogue across racial lines this summer.

  First Baptist Church in Jackson hosted "Stronger Together – A Night of Unity" Aug. 25 to honor the witness of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., where a gunman killed the pastor and eight others at an evening Bible study in mid-June. Read More