Mississippi

Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, canceled all in-person activities Wednesday, June 15, after a man threatened to “shoot up” the church.

Mississippi pastor Adam Wyatt has announced plans to nominate fellow Mississippi pastor Brad Eubank, who is a sexual abuse survivor, to serve in the role of SBC first vice president.

Nine-year-old Caleb Rodgers from Tupelo, Miss., is not letting cerebral palsy stop him from holding a community-wide revival for his 10th birthday.

Mississippi governor Tate Reeves says that the reason why people in his state and elsewhere in the South are not as afraid of COVID-19 as people in other areas is because of their belief in eternal life.

Atheist and humanist groups are suing Mississippi over the state's In God We Trust license plate, calling it unconstitutional and seeking alternatives that don't require additional fees for Mississippi drivers.

A third grader in Mississippi was banned from wearing a mask to school that said “Jesus Loves Me” in large pink letters across it. But that hasn't stopped Lydia Booth from pointing her classmates to the love of Jesus.

The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a Mississippi abortion case that could set the Court up to challenge its previous landmark decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood vs. Casey. 

“The current State flag must come down and be replaced by a symbol that unites us all as friends and neighbors, fellow citizens who genuinely care about one another’s well-being,” Ligon Duncan wrote about the need for a new Mississippi flag.