| | A trustee of the policy wing of the Southern Baptist Convention asserts that its former president intentionally withheld information from trustees about his disagreements with leaders of the SBC Executive Committee over the handling of sexual abuse cases to undermine trust at the denomination's annual meeting. |
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| | The Joel Osteen-led Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, which came under fire from the public last December for accepting $4.4 million from the federal government’s coronavirus relief program for small businesses known as the Paycheck Protection Program, said it never sought forgiveness for “the temporary assistance received.” |
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| | A professor of political science from Fordham University says the U.S. Department of Justice has no evidence to support its claim that parents who oppose the teaching of controversial curriculum in public schools are akin to domestic terrorists. |
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| | Christian leaders in India are demanding action be taken against a mob of 200 radical Hindu nationalists who left a church damaged and at least three Christian women seriously injured in an attack in India's northern state of Uttarakhand. |
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| | The Taliban executed 11 ex-defense personnel and two civilians, including a 17-year-old girl in Afghanistan’s Daykundi province, all of whom were from the ethnic Shia minority, according to an investigation by Amnesty International, which says the killings appear to be war crimes. |
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| | The lame walk, residents are cured of their ailments including dementia and a spiritual revival breaks out on the island. But strange and dark incidents also occur – animals are found dead, people start disappearing and the new priest suddenly has to start holding mass at night. |
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| Dear Friend,
At just five years old, Kelvin Cochran knew what he wanted to do with his life.
He was watching T.V. one evening with his brothers and sisters when they heard sirens outside. They opened the door to find their neighbor’s house on fire.
Kelvin watched the firefighters with amazement. And right then and there, he told his family that he wanted to be a firefighter when he grew up.
 And he did.
He rose through the ranks, battling racism and discrimination as a young black fireman in the South. Kelvin made it all the way to the top of his profession. President Obama appointed him as U.S. Fire Administrator.
When the Mayor of Atlanta begged Kelvin to come back as the city’s fire chief, he did—not knowing that he would soon lose his dream job.
Kelvin is a Christian. On his own time and on his own dime, he wrote and self-published a devotional for a Christian men’s Bible study.
Some people got angry and complained about the book—and about six pages in which Kelvin discusses biblical sexuality and marriage.
And that’s when everything went wrong. | | Download the first chapter of former Alliance Defending Freedom client Kelvin Cochran’s new book, Facing the Fire, for free and get lost in his remarkable story of courage in the face of persecution. | |
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