Throughout the Bible, God instructs his followers to show compassion to the foreigner, while some Scripture can be found that distances the foreigner from the covenant people of God, the Israelites.
Chattanooga police arrested a man who allegedly called Shady's Corner, a bar on Cemetery Avenue, and told the bartender who answered that the neighboring Islamic Center was going to blow up the location.
Across Hamilton County, the freezers of Jewish households are stuffed to the brim. Whether families were helping cook for the upcoming Jewish food festival or not, the volume of food being prepared required many to volunteer space.
A Chattanooga church is pleased that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a fellow member of the conservative evangelical denomination that holds views considered fringe by many other Christian denominations, was placed in a position of influence in Washington.
A long line of community leaders, including Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp and Chattanooga Police Chief John Chambers, paraded behind the Brainerd High School drummers into the Orchard Knob Missionary Baptist Church fellowship hall. The church hosted a back-to-school prayer rally.
As freshmen and returning students descend on the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus, many are looking for a place to belong.
About two blocks off Ringgold Road in a residential area, every other house is obscured by a rented dumpster. Brick below waist height on houses is still tinted dark, laden with floodwater. Cars sit, headlights full of water, with every door open and industrial fans attempting to salvage what can be salvaged.
Residents of The Crossings returned to their homes Wednesday around noon to bicycles, inflatable unicorns and Walmart buggies strewn about the grass and parking lot. The floodwater had receded, and people were assessing the damage done.
Summer camp at the Jewish Federation of Greater Chattanooga was not the kind of scene one would expect — there was plenty of child-like laughter, but the voices were quite mature.
The leader of the Southern Baptist Convention's policy arm resigned from his position after leading the institution for nearly four years.
