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title : Pastor's 'Make America White Again' Congressional Race Billboard Removed In Tennessee
summary : Rick Tyler, an independent candidate running for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district, said he lacked name recognition. Not anymore, not after he erected a billboard alongside a prominent highway vowing to "Make American White Again." The sign came down this week, after a wave of criticism called the sign a tasteless display of bigotry and racism.
date : Jun 26, 2016 10:49 AM EDT
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title : Tennessee Public School Boards Draft New Policies for Religion Classes
summary : Williamson County school board members in Tennessee will vote on a preliminary draft of a religion policy Monday night (June 20). The course of action, as required by a new state law, reinforces the expectation that religion will be taught objectively.
date : Jun 20, 2016 09:33 AM EDT
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title : Religious Teaching in Tennessee Public Schools Debated, House Passes Bill to Restrict Proselytizing
summary : Debates about exactly how to teach religion to Tennessee public school students are rocking the state's school districts to their cores, with activists and concerned parents saying they worry middle school students are being "indoctrinated" with a sanitized version of Islam. Tennessee legislators got involved, and determined that educators could still teach students about religion, but not in any way that proselytizes, under a bill that passed the state House on Monday night.
date : Mar 02, 2016 12:37 PM EST
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title : Kim Davis Given NRB President's Award for Loyalty To Christian Values at Proclaim 16 Convention
summary : Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis on Wednesday received the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) President's Award for her unwavering commitment to Christian values in spite of government and media opposition. Davis was honored in Nashville, Tenn., at Proclaim 16 - the NRB International four-day Christian Media Convention of thousands of Christian communicators. Davis gained international attention after defying a federal court order requiring that she issue marriage licenses following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that supported same-sex marriages.
date : Feb 25, 2016 09:19 AM EST
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title : Bible of Driver Survives Accident Flames After Vehicle Burns In Tennessee Off I-385
summary : Witnesses to a burning SUV accident scene off Interstate 385 in Memphis, Tenn., on Sunday quickly praised God after volunteers rushed to pull a male driver out of a crashed car that burst into flames, leaving only a Bible to be recovered by responders.
date : Feb 22, 2016 03:13 PM EST
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title : Tennessee Couple Crashes Into Pole at 85 MPH, 'God Took the Wheel'
summary : It was “only by the grace of God” that Arika Stovall and her boyfriend, Hunter Hanks, survived a crash that should have killed them. After the truck Hanks was driving at 85 miles per hour hit a pole this Sunday, the Tennessee and Florida couple said the accident, “should have chopped their bodies in half.” But a 3-seconds drift occurred. In that 3 seconds, "God helped Hunter take the wheel and place his truck exactly in the center of the pole, so that we both went untouched, a feat, 'that just doesn’t happen,'" shared Stovall.
date : Jan 07, 2016 07:58 PM EST
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