Michigan

As the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, reels in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya by a police officer, pastors are taking action.

Faith-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan can refuse to place children with same-sex couples under a proposed settlement filed in federal court Tuesday.

A high school in Hillsdale, Mich., that was preventing valedictorian Elizabeth Turner from mentioning her faith in Jesus in her graduation speech has backed off.

Brad Spencer, senior pastor of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Holland, Michigan, has garnered national attention for advising people in his congregation to “get it over with" and contract COVID-19.

Pastor Keith Mannes has served at East Saugatuck Christian Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan for the last four years. But Mannes is resigning his pastoral position over the church's support of President Trump.

Kevin Wheeler, Jr., was the dean of students at Triumph Middle School in Harper Woods (a suburban city that borders Detroit) and is remembered as someone who oriented his life around helping others. 

First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church of Flint, Michigan, is collaborating with actor Jaden Smith and the non-profit Last Kilometer to provide clean water to the community through a device called the Water Box.

A retired pastor in Michigan is believed to have staged his own death to look like a homicide in order to protect his family from the suicide stigma.