For 175 years, generations of believers at First Baptist Church, Tupelo, have worshipped, fellowshipped and reached out to ...

TUPELO • Now that the ground has finally thawed after the recent ice storm, the construction zone at First Baptist Church in downtown Tupelo is a bit of a mess.

The "First Baptist Statement on Biblical Sexuality" detailing the church’s support for binary gender roles as well as the belief that marriage is only between a man and a woman was originally ...