Crime

A pardon expert emailed me his life’s work. Then he killed his two sons and himself.

Local reporting

“I’m praying that our churches, our church specifically, and other Bible-believing churches in our area, that we will point people to Jesus. …He’s the only one who can bring peace where there is nothing but lostness and struggle and anger and fury and confusion.” CToday

Davey Blackburn, the Indianapolis preacher whose pregnant wife, Amanda, was fatally shot in a home invasion two years ago, was remarried Sunday

Update from this earlier post

A lawsuit filed recently in Oklahoma claims negligence by a Southern Baptist state convention in the violent rape last summer of a 13-year girl attending a church camp.

Two local ministers, 30 others snared in prostitution, human trafficking sting

Statement from Grace Baptist Church in Knoxville

2 US Missionaries Found Slain in Rural Jamaica, Police Say

Missionary from Ankeny Church Killed in Jamaica

Woman helped steal $532K to become more prominent church member

Officer Killed During Shooting at Planned Parenthood Was Pro-Life, Co-Pastor at His Church

Wife of former Upstate youth pastor dies after home invasion

Statement From Davey Blackburn

Indianapolis news

An Ohio man charged with burning down a church in northwest Wisconsin on Halloween told police he has ‘personal problems’ with the church and the people who run it, and that his father, a former pastor there, was driven out of the church, according to a criminal complaint.