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Former Wildcat player Phillips named LCU women’s basketball coach

By Message staff PINEVILLE, La. (LBM) – Louisiana Christian University has named former Wildcat basketball player Anna Phillips as its new head women’s basketball coach. “I am going to show up every day and give this team and school everything that I have,” Phillips said in a new conference June 16. “Louisiana Christian University basketball is part of who I am today. And I’m looking forward to building towards a championship as well as transforming lives through the Gospel of Jesus Christ while making sure each student athlete succeeds on and off the court.” Phillips helped lead then-Louisiana College to a 41-34 record and qualify for the American Southwest Conference Tournament twice when she played for the program (2013-2016). After graduation, she joined the team as its academic and community service coordinator, and operated team camps. After LC, Phillips was an assistant women’s basketball coach at Western Texas College in Snyder, Texas (2017-2018) and head women’s basketball coach at Grace Christian School in Alexandria (2018-2019). Most recently, Phillips was head coach of Winnfield High School, her alma mater. During her time there, she led Winnfield to the 2A state playoffs during the three seasons she … [Read more...]

False claim secretly deleted from pro-gay Guidepost’s report

By Will Hall, Baptist Message executive editor NASHVILLE, Tenn. (LBM)—A false claim was secretly edited out of the highly controversial, May 15, “Report of the Independent Investigation,” published by Guidepost Solutions, which now has revealed its pro-gay sympathies, tweeting July 6 that it is “proud to be an ally to our LGBTQ+ community.” It is the second pro-gay group hired by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee to deal with accusations of sexual abuse coverup. News sources previously uncovered that Bradley, a regional law firm that now represents the SBC EC, supports the Nashville gay pride festival and the national bar association for LGBT legal professionals. SECRETS The now-debunked accusation in the report was deleted on or before June 3, without an editor’s note to explain the change. The controversy concerned an exchange between Jim Richards, then the executive director of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention, and Philip Bethancourt, then the executive vice president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Guidepost described the conversation on page 105 of the report with a statement that “divisions within SBC leadership were clear,” … [Read more...]