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Baptist lawmaker restores Ten Commandments to Louisiana’s classrooms

By Will Hall BATON ROUGE, La. (LBM) – Gov. Jeff Landry signed HB71 into law, June 19, making Louisiana the first state in the nation to restore the display of the Ten Commandments in its schools. The legislation, which was authored by Rep. Dodie Horton, a member with First Baptist Church, Haughton, Louisiana, requires a poster or framed document of the Ten Commandments (“at least eleven inches by fourteen inches,” and in “large, easily readable font”) to be placed in every state-funded classroom, kindergarten through college, no later than Jan. 1, 2025. The law uses a version of the Ten Commandments that is adapted from the King James Bible, and it requires the display to include a “context statement” about “The History of the Ten Commandments in American Public Education.” That mandated paragraph emphasizes “The Ten Commandments were a prominent part of American public education for almost three centuries,” beginning with the “The New England Primer,” the first published American textbook (1688). It served as a first-grade reader in U.S. public schools for nearly 150 years. Horton, who successfully championed a law last year to allow the posting in schools of the national motto, “In God We Trust” (which received … [Read more...]

How Mike and Kelly Johnson keep family first

Thanks to the mainstream media, the only thing most Americans know about Mike Johnson (R-La.) as a family man are the contrived controversies over a purity event he attended with his daughter, his covenant marriage with wife Kelly, and the “creepy” anti-porn software he installed to protect himself and his boys. … [Read more...]

Louisiana’s Nix honored as minister’s wife with the Willie Turner Dawson Award

INDIANAPOLIS (LBM) - -The Willie Turner Dawson Award recognizes a minister’s wife for making a distinct denominational contribution beyond the local church and for modeling Christian character and service to others. Diane Nix fits the bill to a T. A longtime pastor’s wife, Nix received the Willie Turner Dawson Award at the sold-out luncheon of more than 1,600 women, at the SBC Ministers’ Wives Luncheon, June 11, Indianapolis. She has been a pastor's wife for almost 41 years, serving alongside her husband pastor/professor Preston L. Nix, a professor of evangelism and evangelistic preaching at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The couple married in 1983. They have two biological daughters (ages 26 & 28), two spiritual daughters (41 & 42), two special grands, and two sons-in-law. She and her pastor/professor husband served as lead pastor and wife in Texas and Oklahoma for 21 years. During the last 20 years, she and Preston, who have loved the local church, have served in 15 interim Pastorates. For the past 14 years, she has hosted the SBC Women’s Expo, and for 19 years, Diane has served on the board to help plan the SBC Women’s Monday Morning session held each year at the … [Read more...]