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It’s been years since I’ve been to Colorado. Fortunately enough I don’t have to wait much longer.
The Religion Newswriter’s Annual Conference starts Sept. 23 in Denver. Thanks to the generous gifts of a whole lot of journalist folks (I mean it: generous, really. These are journalists, after all) I’m able to attend on a scholarship [...]

 Big story. Really big story. Even if the name Keeton isn’t ringing a bell, her dilemma almost certainly does. She’s the local college student that made national news after suing Augusta State University, which she claims requires her to change her Christian beliefs in order to graduate with a counseling degree.
Here, we check in with [...]

Abbigail Deloach, 8, is baptized by Associate Pastor Terry Doss at Abilene Baptist Church in Martinez.

 
Baptists’ plan tries to address dwindling numbers
By Kelly Jasper, staff writer
Monday, July 9, 2010
AUGUSTA, GA. – Southern Baptists have adopted changes they hope will lead to a denominational growth unlike anything in their history.
Southern states, where the denomination is [...]

Photo by Michael Holahan/Staff

Anyone with half an ear to the ground has heard plenty about the going ons of Angel Food Ministries these past few years. The Georgia nonprofit distributes massive amounts of low-cost food across the country and has, since 2009, endured a lawsuit, a federal investigation and controversy over legislation introduced by one [...]

photo by Jackie Ricciardi/The Augusta Chronicle
I checked back in with the family of Tater, a 15-year-old who was fast outgrowing the weelchair-equipped van his family uses to transport him around town. We last wrote about Tater and the Maphis family around Christmas.
With dad Roger off for his third deployment to the Middle East, [...]