Before Bo Han enrolls at the University of Texas at Austin, the 18-year-old from Flower Mound, Texas, is spending a week of his summer serving Pine Bluff through acts of goodwill for a higher purpose.
The Arkansas Department of Corrections prison seminary program is getting ready to graduate its first class next year even as the program is already looking to expand by raising funds for a new facility as prison officials try to reduce the violence inside their facilities with the help of inmates trained in religious studies.
The Arkansas Department of Corrections prison seminary program is getting ready to graduate its first class next year even as the program is already looking to expand by raising funds for a new facility as prison officials try to reduce the violence inside their facilities with the help of inmates trained in religious studies.
ANAHEIM, Calif. Forty-seven years after professing his faith in Jesus Christ at a tiny Craighead County church, 52-year-old Bart Barber is one of the top candidates to serve as president of the nation's largest Protestant denomination the Southern Baptist Convention.
The newly-released list of Baptists accused of sex abuse includes former pastors, educators and other church workers from across the state of Arkansas.