• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

ATF investigating fire at Tenn. church with historic ties to Civil Rights Movement

Michie

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Feb 5, 2002
185,962
68,418
Woods
✟6,198,167.00
Country
United States
Gender
Female
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating a fire that devastated a Tennessee church that had been involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

The Clayborn Temple Church of Memphis, a closed down church that was in the process of undergoing a $6 million renovation project, suffered a severe fire earlier this week.

"Despite our best efforts, as you can see, it has sustained significant damage," Memphis Fire Chief Gina Sweat told Fox 13 Memphis. "The fire is under control at this point but we still have hot spots, so firefighters will be working throughout the day."

Continued below.
 

Tuur

Well-Known Member
Oct 12, 2022
3,008
1,634
Southeast
✟101,368.00
Country
United States
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
FWIW, I think ATF investigation of church fires have been pretty much automatic since the Clinton Administration (maybe part of the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996). A friend's church had a fire along then, and the ATF investigated. IIRC, they found no foul play was involved.
 
Upvote 0

Michie

Well-Known Member
Site Supporter
Feb 5, 2002
185,962
68,418
Woods
✟6,198,167.00
Country
United States
Gender
Female
Faith
Catholic
Marital Status
Married
Politics
US-Others
Upvote 0