Jeong Myeong-seok founded the JMS church and quickly became prominent in Korea, especially among college students. The crime docuseries explains no other church in the 80s and 90s had such a high ...

A Newport, Tenn. judge has come under fire for ordering a couple in a dispute, to change their baby’s first name. The couple, in a child support hearing, went before Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann ...

Confederate statues and symbols linked to the United States’ history of racism, including the confederacy and the horrific enslavement of Africans, have faced removal in recent years. But now leaders ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) A Tennessee judge should not have barred a couple from naming their child “Messiah,” said the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee. On Thursday ...

A judge has taken it upon herself to tell Tennessee mom Jaleesa Martin and baby’s father that the name they chose for their son just won’t do. According to the local TV station WBIR, Martin and ...

NEWPORT, Tenn. -- An East Tennessee magistrate has been replaced months after ordering a baby's name changed from Messiah to Martin because she believes Messiah is a title held only by Jesus Christ.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A Tennessee judge on Wednesday restored a baby boy's given first name of "Messiah," ruling unconstitutional a lower ranking judge's order changing it to "Martin" on ...

Jaleesa Martin said she couldn't believe it when child support magistrate Lu Ann Ballew last month ordered Martin's 8-month-old son's name changed during a paternity hearing. The parents were ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Young Messiah, the “happiest baby in the ...