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Pandemic, loss unite two rural Missouri pastors around faith

December 9, 2020

Thirty miles of rural Missouri separate the two churches, and so much else. One is mostly white; the other hosts services in five languages for

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Alabama’s Safer at Home order, which includes mask mandate, extended through January 2021

December 9, 2020

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has extended the state’s current public health order, with no changes, until Jan. 22, 2021. During a Dec. 9 press conference,

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Headline news from around the Southeast for December 10

December 9, 2020

Florida For the past five years, chaplains Tommy and Sandy Simmons have served in prison ministry at Desoto County Jail in southwest Florida. In what

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Christmas Backpacks ministry partnerships continue despite pandemic

December 8, 2020

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Alabama Baptists are on track to collect more than 9,000 backpacks destined for holiday outreach efforts at ministry sites across the

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Churches, Operation Christmas Child adapt to provide shoebox gifts amid pandemic

December 3, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Debbie Smith of Walden Chapel Baptist Church, Danville, began sewing face masks to give to family and friends. Many recipients

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Aaron Wilburn

Aaron Wilburn — popular songwriter, singer, comedian — dies at age 70

November 30, 2020

Christian singer/songwriter/comedian Aaron Wilburn died Nov. 27 following a weeks long battle with COVID-19. He was 70 years old. Wilburn’s musical talent paired with his

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Martin Luther

Martin Luther’s pandemic advice goes viral — 500 years later

November 28, 2020

It has been more than 500 years since German monk Martin Luther’s words went viral, thanks to what was then some cutting-edge technology. In 1517,

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Adam Taylor succeeds Jim Wallis as Sojourners president

November 25, 2020

Adam Taylor has been named the new president of Sojourners, the national Christian social justice advocacy organization founded and led by the Rev. Jim Wallis

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