Courtroom drama about pistol-packing preacher offers lasting lessons, author says
A new book by David Stokes called The Shooting Salvationist examines J. Frank Norris, the controversial pastor of First Baptist Church in Fort Worth and his sensational trial and aquittal for murder in the mid-1920s.
acking Christmas boxes may seem out of place during the season of pumpkins and colored leaves, but that is what hundreds of Missouri Baptists, including several St. Louis churches, are doing.