Texas
After 50 years, clergy work together again in San Antonio, for affordable housing
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(RNS) — Unlike interfaith efforts that focus more on dialogue, the project centers on action toward a constructive social good.
Sutherland Springs
Prayer and a packing pastor: A church’s response to a mass shooting
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (RNS) — In this dusty crossroads town of 600 people with one blinking red light, church members have taken a starkly different approach from that of the Florida high school students agitating for change.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham never lived in Texas but belonged to a Dallas church for 54 years
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DALLAS (RNS) — Why did Graham place membership at a church nearly 1,000 miles from his home in Montreat, N.C.?
religion and politics
Texas city council members censure colleague over anti-Islam Facebook post
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PLANO, Tex. (RNS) — The post featured a student in a hijab and these words: ‘Share if you think Trump should ban Islam in American schools.’
gun laws
Virginia Senate passes bill to allow guns in churches
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The measure comes in response to a deadly church shooting in Texas.
faith in public
Ten Commandments monument attracts Texas shoppers, not protesters
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(RNS) — A Texas mall proudly erects a massive Ten Commandments monument and attracts none of the controversy that has swirled around similar displays on public land.
commentary
Allowing guns in church flies in the face of tradition and Scripture
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(RNS) — Pistol-packing parishioners may seem like a way to guard against the church shootings that have become so commonplace recently. But there is a long history in Christianity of opposing such strategies.
crime
Ex-priest gets life in prison for 1960 parishioner slaying
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EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A jury on Friday sentenced an 85-year-old former priest to life in prison for the 1960 killing of a schoolteacher and former beauty queen who was a member of the parish he served.
church security
God and guns: Texas pastors undergo security training a month after Sutherland Springs
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PLANO, Texas (RNS) — The Rev. Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church and a former president of the national Southern Baptist Convention, said God put the idea for the free seminar on his heart.
Sutherland Springs
Thousands pack Texas church shooting family funeral service
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Church member John Holcombe, among the massacre’s few survivors, invited the public to attend the funeral of his pregnant wife, three of her children, his parents, a brother and the brother’s 18-month-old daughter.
church attack
Could it happen here? How churches are preparing for a mass shooting
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SCOTTS, Mich. (RNS) – The weekend after the deadliest church shooting in U.S. history, one small church in Michigan had security trainers teach congregants how to respond to an armed intruder.
First Baptist Church
Texas town holds 1st Sunday service since church attack
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Members of the First Baptist Church will hold a church service for the first time since a gunman opened fire inside the small church a week earlier in the worst mass shooting in Texas history.
commentary
Last Sunday, domestic violence came to church
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(RNS) — There is a holy hush that permeates church life when it comes to thinking about domestic violence within and beyond congregational life, writes Nancy Nason-Clark.
churches
The glue that kept Sutherland Springs together before and after the shootings
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (RNS) — Within 24 hours of the mass shooting, another church in town sprang into action, as the coordinating center for the emergency response.
commentary
Who decides when we as a country pray and when we act?
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(RNS) — ‘The dichotomy between prayers and action portrayed in the Twitter feeds of our leaders is a false one and serves neither the dead, the bereaved, nor our nation as a whole,’ writes Chloe Breyer. (COMMENTARY)