Religion

It was a warm summer night in a town near Washington, D.C.
A group of friends sat around a backyard table eating dinner when a young man with a gun appeared and interrupted the dinner party, according to a 2016 NPR story.
“Give me your money or I’m going to start shooting,” he said, pointing the gun at one of the women.
The people believed him; however, no one had any money on them.
So, they started talking to the man, first trying to play on his guilt: “What would your mother think about you doing this?”

By Roger Alford

Pleasant Ridge Baptist

The news was horrific and sordid: Church staff member arrested for a sexually salacious crime.
Sadly commonplace, it happens all over the U.S. — you just never expect it to happen to your church.
But last week, it happened to mine when our former worship director was arrested and charged with multiple sex-related crimes against minors.
A local sheriff’s detective called him a “textbook predator.”
We as a church loved him — still love him. And we as a church abhor what he has done.