Silverdale Baptist Academy cut the ribbon Wednesday on its new building that houses facilities geared toward vocational classes. The celebration came in time for the start of the 2025-26 school year.
The Chattanooga Library's downtown branch is highlighting the lives of two Ochs brothers, but not the one most well known.
The annual gathering of the Holston Conference, the region of the United Methodist Church covering East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and the northwest corner of Georgia, brought passage of a resolution to oppose Christian nationalism and a commitment by the denomination to educate itself on the "societal and spiritual dangers" of the ideology.
While the country digested a court filing by the IRS saying houses of worship are free to endorse political candidates to their congregations, two local pastors frowned on doing so.
The United States Civil Rights Commission has approved new appointments to the Tennessee Advisory Committee, and the list included a Chattanooga pastor.
The National Baptist Convention U.S.A., the largest predominantly African American religious convention in the United States, is under fire for accepting a $75,000 donation from Target amid a boycott of the company.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Chattanooga area has grown such in the past several years that the Chattanooga region that was under one jurisdiction has been split in two.
People from far and wide traveled here for the Scopes Trial Centennial Celebration, which continued Wednesday with the first day of the Scopes Symposium, a series of lectures spanning two days covering everything from the people of the trial to Christian responses to evolution.
Chattanooga lawyer Jerry Summers will give a lecture on Tennessee's famous evolution trial and its characters at the Scopes Symposium in Rhea County, along with other experts marking the centennial of the historic event.
The luxuries of air conditioning and automated window blinds are modern features added to the Rhea County Courthouse during renovations in the past year to gear up for the 100th anniversary of the Scopes evolution trial.
