Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
An 18-year-old first-year student at a Christian college in Nashville was fatally struck by a stray bullet shot from a gun wielded by a recently released criminal. Jillian Ludwig was rushed to Vanderbilt University Medical Center after she was discovered lying on the ground at Edgehill Community Memorial Gardens Park around 3:30 p.m. According to…

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A Connecticut school board has supposedly removed prayers before board meetings after a complaint from an atheist organization and a “concerned community member.” CT Insider reported that the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), an atheist activist group, contacted the Enfield School District to complain about the prayers allegedly routinely unfolding before meetings. Enfield’s Board of…

Glynn County Sheriffs Office
The body of a 16-year-old Georgia teen was recently found after the teen was reported missing from a church camp he attended on Jekyll Island. The Brunswick News reported that Connor Mathis was found in the water at the island’s south end after an almost 20-hour search with hundreds of volunteers and multiple law enforcement…

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In his first sermon since his daughter was killed in a mass shooting at a Christian school, Chad Scruggs, the senior pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church, discussed the complicated nature of grief while thanking the church for supporting his family during their pain. Scruggs told his Nashville-based church in a message titled “Loss and Gain,”…

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