By Diana Chandler Baptist Press DALLAS — A Dallas boy whose father says is content as a boy may face transgender therapy after a district court judge gave the child’s mother full conservatorship, according to news reports. Without holding a scheduled hearing, Dallas District Court Judge Mary Brown on Aug. 10 reversed her earlier ruling that upheld joint conservatorship for both parents, who divorced in 2015 when James was 3.

Baptist Press staff WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — The vehicle of Marilane Carter, a pastor’s wife who’d been missing more than two weeks, was found Aug. 18 with the body of a deceased female inside. Crittenden County Sheriff Mike Allen told Memphis’ WMC-TV a family member discovered the car while searching the area where Carter was last known to have been. It was located inside a storage container on private property

By Aaron Earls LifeWay Christian Resources NASHVILLE — When a pastor commits adultery, most of their fellow pastors believe they should withdraw from public ministry for at least some time. A new survey of U.S. Protestant pastors by Nashville-based LifeWay Research finds 2 percent of pastors believe a fellow pastor who has an affair does not need to take any time away. “Scripture doesn’t mince words about adultery,” said Scott

By BP Staff PRATTVILLE, Ala. — A bivocational Southern Baptist pastor resigned from his church Wednesday (July 29), after backlash resulting from his participation in an annual birthday celebration for Nathan Bedford Forrest, a leader in the Confederate Army and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Will Dismukes, who is also a first-term Republican state representative, resigned from his position at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church after a