JACKSONVILLE, Fla — On Sunday, Bethel Baptist Church in downtown Jacksonville celebrated its 185th year anniversary as Florida’s oldest Baptist church. “It speaks to our imprint and impact to be the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — If congregants of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville want to remain members, they have to sign a statement vowing to oppose LGBTQ+ freedoms. Senior Pastor Heath Lambert has said ...

Members of First Baptist Church Jacksonville are now having to sign what’s called the “First Baptist Statement on Biblical Sexuality” in order to remain members of the church. The statement sent out ...

A Jacksonville megachurch is requiring members to sign a new, anti-LGBTQ pledge committing to adhere to “biblical sexuality” — or leave the church. Describing the oath as “an exercise in clarity… in a ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Camilla P. Thompson, 91, is fragile and slow in her steps. These days, her vision is dim, a victim of glaucoma, but her mind is bright as a 40-watt bulb "I like history," she ...

Dear Call Box: There’s an abandoned building at 218 W. Church St. that’s long intrigued me. What can you tell me about it. Dear R.D.: When it opened in 1924, about 1,000 people turned out to see ...

After a week of headlines about an upcoming deadline for members to sign a form agreeing to the church’s “Statement of Biblical Sexuality” on its stance on LGBTQ+ and other “sins” of what he termed a ...

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville church on Sunday remembered a difficult year among its congregation during the coronavirus pandemic. The congregation at Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church gathered ...

Rodric Hurdle-Bradford is a longtime journalist who has covered the state capital beats in Arizona, California, Missouri and Nevada. He has also served as Convention Beat Reporter for the Las Vegas ...