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• Parents can fight graphic sex ed by 'linking arms with people of other faiths:' activists

• Father of Tennessee church shooter said he begged police to take guns, urged son to pray demons away

  Vanansio Samson, the father of 27-year-old Emanuel Kidega Samson who fatally shot a beloved mother and wounded six others at Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee in 2017, said he begged police to take  his son’s guns before the tragedy.

• Southern Baptist Convention membership slipped below 15 million in 2018: report

  The Southern Baptist Convention experienced a decline in membership and worship attendance in 2018 but also an increase in financial giving, according to recently released numbers.