Editor's note: DeeDee (Edea) Williams delivered this sermon at Jubilee Mennonite Church in Meridian, Miss., on July 3, 2005, during the United States' second war
FOR 17 YEARS, the Southern Baptist Convention has worked tirelessly to slow its decline. Now the struggling denomination seems to be trying to hasten it.
Juneteenth, the newest U.S. federal holiday, will be commemorated nationally for just the third time on Monday (June 19). Juneteenth honors the day in 1865
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